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...trying to hold her troubled TV family together. An uninvited guest is waiting for her in the living room. "Who are you?" demands Bel Geddes. "Why, I'm Miss Ellie," replies Donna Reed. A troubled look comes over Bel Geddes' face as the music swells to a cliff-hanger close. "But," she protests, "I'm Miss Ellie...
...carapace, or even the tail of a catfish. In making them, their armorers came up with shapes so breathtakingly elegant in their severe reduction of nature that they would have no Western parallel until Brancusi. The most extreme are probably those meant to suggest, in a notched and folded cliff of black lacquer rising from the brow, a landscape, specifically Ichi-no-tani Canyon, the site of a famous battle in the 12th century. And there are helmets whose fusion of unstated ferocity and formal elegance seems to epitomize the nature of Zen warriorhood. One, a 16th century filigree...
...repeatedly?to the great misfortune of those who've heeded him?about an ominous oversupply of apartments and the government's halfhearted efforts to rein in speculation. For me, there's a particular terror of repeating my New York mistake: joining the herd moments before it runs off the cliff. But with Chinese incomes surging and well-paid expats flocking to Shanghai, I have little doubt that luxury apartments in prime locations are a great bet if you hold on to them long enough. As Faber says, "You may overpay on a short-term basis, but real estate in China...
...official standard of exchange. To his appetite for low company Seagrave adds an urbane taste for incongruity, a penchant for Edwardian epigrams ("There is a time for fools to come forth, when only bandits can be kings") and a gift for painterly description: Taiwan is a realm of "cliff-lined seascapes and misty peaks that unrolled each dawn from the scroll of night...
Harvard senior golfer Cliff Ryan didn’t fare quite as well as Tiger Woods at this weekend’s Yale Spring Opener. But he came close...