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Even at moments of seeming relaxation, Kissinger manages to maintain an aura of mystery and tension. Last week the Secretary, dressed in blue shorts and a white terry-cloth beach jacket, was sunning himself beside the pool of the New Cataract Hotel in Aswan when an aide rushed up with a secret message. Kissinger walked away from attentive newsmen to read the missive. "Can we do that?" he asked. "Yes," replied the aide. Kissinger returned to talk with the reporters, but did not tell them until they boarded the plane that they were to make an unscheduled flight to Ankara...
...trade as an apprentice seamstress at the age of eleven in 1887, opened her own fashion house in 1912, and flourished till her retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher in the modern age of sensuous, nonconfining women's clothing...
...prequel, circling round the events of the original Godfather but leaving that tightly-knit, well-spun story--a film that kept everyone, critics and mass audience alike, on the edge of their seats--standing alone and untouched. Francis Ford Coppola's new movie is cut from the same cloth as Godfather I, but the pieces are arranged differently. It contains the same kinds of scenes--a sudden barrage of machine-gun fire rips open a quiet evening, the Don deals with his petitioners like a medieval monarch receiving his subjects--but they don't follow in a neat sequence. Instead...
...These days people would rather cook in than go out," theorizes Bridge, 59. "Quiche pans I can't keep in stock. Omelette makers won't quit. And bread! Bread is unbelievable. Why not? For $25 you can get a stainless steel bowl, a pastry cloth, a dough cutter, a bread pan, and you're in business. Forever...
Nick Minard was a committed socialist. He didn't just sit over coffee at Adams House and identify with the proletariat by wearing work boots and a cloth cap. He worked almost every day of the past two years for people whom he'd never seen and never really knew. He helped lead the Boston area boycott of Farah so that clothing workers in Texas would be able to have a union, and not merely accept what Mister Farah wanted to give them; he picketed in the rain for the Harvard printers' union last spring, trying to remind the university...