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...Marsh in Boston report a swirl of business, as do Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue, which had a particularly hot run on monks' capes. In Los Angeles, where even the ladies who sell maps to movie stars' homes have been cloaked up for years, boutiques are having trouble keeping capes in stock. A favorite is St. Laurent's Moroccan wool version, already snapped up by Jennifer Jones. The farther-out Reva's Fashions boutique, where Joanne Woodward picked up her reversible Guinevere cloak, has a bestseller in matte jersey...
...others. Most recipes are accompanied by chatty scientific explanations of what's going on inside the food: "Because French bread stands free in the oven and is not baked in a pan, it has to be formed in such a way that the tension of the coagulated gluten cloak [coagulated gluten cloak!] on the surface will hold the dough in shape." And take her treatment of lobsters. She tells you how to determine their sex (the last pair of swimmerets on the male are hard, pointed, and hairless). She tells you how to kill them humanely. ("Using a sharp knife...
UNDER the cloak of irony a writer in the last CRIMSON raises the cry, "Away with the exercises around the tree on Class Day. They are a disgrace to the students, making them appear as rowdies and boys rather than as gentlemen. Let us have no more of them...
...whose appearance suggests a Polish leprechaun, bounded all over his set, doing a little of everybody's job-digging up a rock, moving a prop, holding a horse. His eye for detail is such that he would interrupt a sword fight sequence to adjust the fold of a cloak, or, if a natural rainstorm did not seem convincing enough, supplement it by hosing the actors with water. Far from complaining, the youthful cast seemed caught up in his energy. When Jon Finch was not starring as Macbeth, he would hop on a horse and ride in the background...
What is necessary, above all, is a redressed balance in the approach of Government to the public. Secrecy is all too often used as an easy cover for operational failures, as a mask for individual or collective mistakes in policymaking, as a shield for actual wrongdoing and as a cloak to hide the undertaking of new and often costly commitments. In part, the prevalence of covert dealings indicates that the different branches of Government simply do not trust one another very much these days. Can an atmosphere of greater confidence within the Government be achieved? Fortunately there is a pattern...