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...believes, "a people are communicating the current ideals, values and aspirations of their culture." That idea may be refuted; it may be bought wholesale, on time or at closeout; but the best place to window-shop while thinking it over is this shrewd and knowing introduction to a closet revolution...
GOING to the movies alone and needing to buy acne medicine were two nightmares just one baby-step inside the walk-in closet of adolescent fears. Try vainly to see the UHS dermatogist for the second, out if Saturday night finds you alone and without the mental stamina to distinguish formulation two of Kant's categorical Imperative from formulation three, then see Bad Manners, a sometimes tacky, sometimes funny, sometimes tasteless, but nearly always funny flick...
...stranger pieces of unsecured U.S. diplomatic baggage fell out of the State Department's closet with a clunk last week. A spokesman announced that the Reagan Administration at long last would seek Senate ratification of a United Nations pact denouncing genocide. The move came less than three weeks before the Senate's scheduled adjournment, making formal consent to the document this session virtually impossible. Stranger still, the Administration's sudden backing occurred after 3½ years of silence about the treaty, which has been supported by Reagan's seven immediate predecessors despite its languishing among...
Such cautionary talk, however, seemed wildly out of place last week as Mulroney prepared to assume his post. The Tory leader planned to closet himself with his aides in Ottawa to pick a Cabinet and prepare his party's address for the opening of Parliament. The speech is expected to outline, in greater detail than Mulroney did on the campaign trail, the Tory vision for Canada. If his race and his past are any guide, the new Prime Minister will describe a society that is tolerant in its vast diversity, compassionate toward its less fortunate members and, of course...
...loudly. They paid only scant attention to the animals in whose presence they chatted vigorously. The elephant looked lost in thought. It was more sophisticated than the baby elephant seen in Neiman-Marcus later in the week, over whom shoppers gooed. If I had arrived earlier at the closet lady's party, I would have seen yet another elephant which played the harmonica and waved the American flag. But I missed that...