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...Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool, linens, pure cotton-and difficult to care for, with a tendency to develop the rumpled badge of the thoroughly bred. "A poor man can't afford to look wrinkled," observes Lauren. "A rich...
...This has bred an undisciplined team of explosive potential which was never realized. It sure was a shame...
...Europe today. Thick-walled 17th century fortresses, built by the great French engineer Vauban, and a toweringly spired Gothic cathedral look down on postwar synthetic-rubber factories and petrochemical plants. Although 300 miles from the North Sea, Strasbourg is France's largest port for exports; Common Market-bred prosperity has all but erased old fears that the city might once again become the object of French-German rivalry. TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers recently visited Strasbourg and filed this report...
...Radcliffe had been a stronghold to be conquered, courted, and panty-raided. But those sharply writ symbolic fields of action for sexual interplay are gone. We rub shoulders in coed bathrooms and hang out in each other's bedrooms with an armpoking buddy-buddiness. Cohabitation has bred a defense against its natural tensions: the unconscious disavowal of our sexual differences. Harvard and Radcliffe have identified...
When San Furanshisuko Saberyusu, as the Japanese called the Spanish Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, landed at Kagoshima in 1549, he was not quite the first Westerner to enter Japan. But the Portuguese merchants who had arrived before him were viewed with well-bred distaste by the Japanese. What could one make of such odd-colored, hairy, round-eyed barbarians? "I do not know whether they have a proper system of ceremonial etiquette," one Oriental lord wrote of the Namban-jin, or "people from the south." "They eat with their fingers instead of chopsticks as we do. They show their feelings...