Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Movie actresses are the main stylesetters in India, both in manners and morals. Zeenat Aman, who claims to be 24 but is closer to 30, has personally replaced the sari with blue jeans in millions of young Indian women's wardrobes. Parveen Babi, 22, the fastest-rising new star, is presently acting in 20 movies. One reason Indian movie fans are fascinated with Parveen, aside from her sleek figure, is because of her candor. Young men and women all over India claim that it is the swinging lives of the stars that are suddenly making them much less hesitant...
...that he seemingly has the nomination locked up, Carter's economic program undoubtedly will come in for closer scrutiny, and he will be under pressure to amplify it. But there is little chance that the program will change substantially. With minor exceptions, Carter has been quite consistent in his economic pronouncements, and he pledges that as President he would follow steady, predictable policies, avoiding the sudden lurches−from a free market to wage-price controls and back again−of the Republican years. His major views...
Illich's diagnosis of medicine's mal ady is correct. But his prescription is both polemical and disappointing. He rejects such political and economic solutions as national health insurance and closer regulation. Instead, he proposes a return to conservatism, a sort of spiritual recognition that suffering is unavoidable in life, a facing up to the inevitability of death as well as the limits of medicine. There is no question that Illich's approach would decrease man's dependence on a medical establishment that already exerts great influence over him. Unfortunately, in the long run it would...
...drink solely would be pretty dull, even for the summer. There are, short of visiting Maine or Western Mass., closer range methods of rural escape, fortunately. This one will kill you, but Mt. Auburn cemetery in West Cambridge, near Coolidge Hill, is simply beautiful, with a great view of Boston. You'll know that Nathaniel Hawthorne would have been proud of your ability to confront the forces of darkness. Harvard happens to own another close-to-home retreat, the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain (Boston...
...modern subdivisions. Be sure to stand at the window in the front of the train next to the engineer's compartment so you can look right out on the tracks. You can chart rising land values by looking at how close new subdivisions come to the threstle--the closer the homes, the more expensive the lots are for the builder. The trestle neight offers excellent view of North Church, North Station and the Prudential development...