Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American dream from the days when model-airplane kits were still mostly balsa. A 1929 high-wing monoplane, bravely lacquered in sky blue and wasp yellow, hangs from the ceiling, almost low enough for the grown visitor to touch its spats. Nearby sits the Chrysler Airflow -- not, alas, the classic 1934 model with the "waterfall" radiator, but still modernity on wheels, squinty windshield, fairings and all. Between them are such icons as the 1936 Sears-Roebuck Waterwitch outboard, offering its owner some whiff of the thrill associated with Henry Dreyfuss's bullet-nosed locomotives or Norman Bel Geddes' flying wings...
...professional admirers. Gustave Flaubert's scandalous character has vamped the imaginations and intellects of writers from Baudelaire to Woody Allen, whose l971 short story The Kugelmass Episode conjures a contemporary character who can transport himself to Yonville to play a role in Madame Bovary. "The mark of a classic," wrote Allen, "is that you can reread it a thousand times and always find something...
...movie to appear later this season, calls for Chamberlain to seduce such beauties as Faye Dunaway and Sylvia Kristel (Emmannuelle). Nice work if you can cut it, but Casanova may have had an easier time of it. Chamberlain, 51, has to bed all his conquests twice. "We have the classic American and European dichotomy," he reports. "For the American version the women are covered up, and then when we switch to the European version, blouses come ripping off and there is considerably more flesh." Poor Richard...
...annual revenues the school normally earns from the sport. But winking at regulations is so endemic to big-time football that when the news broke, Dallas Developer (and alleged donor of the free apartment) George Owen, already permanently banned from recruiting by S.M.U. for previous violations, offered a classic rationale: "I don't know why they're making such a big deal of this," he said. "Everyone bends the rules a little...
Women's basketball at Maine, December 20; at Wahine Classic, Hawaii host, January...