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...pilot, expatriate and gentleman farmer. She became pregnant by him and miscarried. Four years later the lovers quarreled ferociously. A few days afterward, Denys died in a plane accident near Nairobi. There seemed nothing left of Karen's life but recollected griefs: she decided to put them between cloth covers...
...visit L.L. Bean's one and only retail outlet. To the catalogue faithful it is a shrine to a Yankee mystique woven from images of integrity, good value and handcrafted quality. Bean's merchandise is not necessarily expensive ($18 for its best button-down striped Oxford-cloth shirts), and it is not elegant. Over the years a kind of reverse chic has attached itself to its sturdy Yankee clothes and shoes: its $40 woodsman's pants, "all wool and a yard wide," say, or the $73 sheepskin-lined boots that look as if they were created...
Lasers have been used to cut cloth, cauterize ulcers, measure air pollution and guide bombs. Now comes a new wrinkle: laser beams for facelifts. A painless, nonsurgical laser-beam therapy, said to improve facial muscle tone, was developed in the Soviet Union, popularized in Europe, and is currently winning a large following in California and Florida. "It's like taking your face to the gym," says one satisfied customer. But according to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, it is more like being taken to the cleaners...
...plot is straightforward boy-meets-girl and depends on such conventions as a villain in a top hat and rescuers in disguises (one does a drag impersonation of Queen Victoria). The stage is tiny and the choreography consequently minimal, yet in one serendipitous moment a painted cloth is lit from behind to become a foggy, gaslit, sweeping vista of a Sherlock Holmes-style England...
...having their noses, their hair, their frock coats as I describe them?' he said, exchanging a biretta for a meerschaum, the meerschaum for a duster, and the duster for a crutch. 'What does it matter to anyone if I lubricate my imagination with a few bits of cloth...