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Surrounded by adulatory crowds and a formidable blanket of security, the Pontiff begins his eleven- day tour. Proclaiming himself a pilgrim upon arrival, he closets himself for a one- on- one meeting with President Reagan, and responds carefully to the divergent voices of the American religious melting pot -- Catholic and...
In a sense, then, our monarchs are in fact our subjects, hostage to the dreams we wish them to enact. Axel, the wan hero dreamed up by the French symbolist Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, famously suggested that he and his fellow aristocrats leave the messy business of living to...
Still, many wary, independent women, conditioned to comfort dressing by the Reebok revolution, are apparently determined to defy the tyranny of dictatorial designers and the fashion press. They are not about to attack closets with scissors to slice off their precious collection of skirts. "There is something elegant about a...
Barbie threatened in a published interview to drag skeletons from closets in his defense. He said he might name some French collaborators "perhaps now enjoying positions of influence in modern France."
The operation of these aquatic elevators consumes a prodigious amount of fresh water. Each time a ship passes through the canal, some 52 million gallons must be pumped into the locks and then, after the ship has passed, flushed out to sea. "The locks are like giant water closets," explains...