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...omni-theatrical eye of the circum-ambient fly, even one preserved beyond its season by the warm fuffing of the basement radiators, there is no difference between what a vigilant, if bored, audience member might distinguish as a decidedly attractive male student and an esteemed female Professor of Aesthetics (the attractiveness of the former self-evident, the exalted status of the latter self-assumed), whereas there is considerable and vivid promise extended by the protrusion of a soft sail, a furred white triangle—what that same observer would with private amusement (and a mental note to repeat...
Rosenthal said he is also available for assistance in special circum- stances...
Warren, who taught at the law school as a visiting professor during the spring of 1993, said yesterday the offer had been available since that time, but added that family circum-stances had kept her from accepting the position until...
...from a health spread of brown rice, raw vegetables and yogurt soup, President Carter's national security adviser danced almost every feverish dance. His evening was interrupted only once for a White House call (subject undisclosed). When asked what he thought of the movie, he replied in diplomatic circum-speak: "It was a benign view of a difficult past...
Fallout in Canada. Reaction elsewhere was less businesslike. Alaska's Governor William Egan declared that responsibility for any harm done to the Aleutian Islands (which with Japan and California are situated on the Circum-Pacific Girdle of Fire) should be borne by the AEC and the President. The Canadian government expressed a "deep sense of disquiet" and, like Egan, held the Administration accountable for any aftereffects that might be caused by the explosion. Taking a more direct approach, a Canadian group chartered a minesweeper, Greenpeace, Too, and sailed from Vancouver for Amchitka, where they intended to anchor outside...