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One of the broader trends in women's wear is long and clinging cotton and knit sweaters that give the outlines but not the details. The winner in my knit-picking contest is Adrenne Vittadini's line of sweaters that includes liberal quotations from modern artists like Klee, Miro, and...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: Fun, Sun and Dumb--This Spring's New Looks | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

After Saturday's season ending loss to Yale, Crimson Coach Kathy Delaney Smith was left clinging to the rallying point of all building teams: next year.

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: A Season for Building | 3/12/1985 | See Source »

"You really feel like a failure," says Charles Boehmke, 44, who is clinging to his Minnesota farm after losing his animals and machinery because he could not repay a $136,000 loan. One of his neighbors, David Honsey, 40, filed for bankruptcy and said it made him feel like going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinging to the Land | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Lasch grasps that Skinner, having developed certain ideas as fully as he could, has reached some limit at which many Americans balk, but he overlooks the possible implications of this development. Most of Lasch's thought deals with correcting people who take Freud as their starting points; clinging to Freud...

Author: By John P.O Connor, | Title: Notes From Blunder ground | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

"If you want to look with interest and contentment into a bay for any length of time, it is better that it doesn't have a whale in it. Now, it occurred to me that the freakish landscape of Cappadocia illustrated the same truth. What you need of such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Land of Far Beyond | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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