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...Deal period wearing her famous traveling fur piece. But to head off the animal-rights people, Eleanor was moved from the mid-1930s gallery to the time after F.D.R.'s death when she was a delegate to the U.N. By then she was wearing a cloth coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROOSEVELT: WHERE'S HIS WHEELCHAIR? | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

Barbra looked threatened; she guarded her face with her coat lapels, not knowing what to make of these weirdos sniffing tentatively at her. It was all very awkward, so on her approach to University Hall, I caught her eye and greeted her: "Hello, Ms. Streisand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRUSH WITH BARBRA | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...typically Canadian fashion, the company was far too polite to take any overt notice of Him. We pretended to glance over at the tree He was standing under, looking for a bird whose song we swore we recognized. But under that thin, hard coat of well-bred civility, there was an unsatisfied urge to mob Him, like a dam waiting to burst. We looked at each other, wondering who would be first to release the floodgate...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: The Stars: Far Away, So Close | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...colleges, Harvard probably would have never made it into the top ten, let alone been first. It's not unusual for the temperature to be a bitter five degrees out, and the wind makes it feel like 20 below. So all bundled up with hat and scarf, gloves and coat, you glumly trudge off towards the Science Center for your 10:00 Core. And, there on the street, some guy walks by wearing shorts. You pause and rub your eyes. Worried that your blood will freeze if you stand still for too long you head off towards your destination, muttering...

Author: By Ryan S. Mccarthy, | Title: Claustrophobia of the Knees | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...richest colony. They designed grand theaters and government buildings, using the same proportional guidelines that gave Paris such remarkable balance in size and form, though French liberals of the time groused over ``la folie des grandeurs.'' From 1945 until recently, however, Hanoi barely received as much as a fresh coat of paint. Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam was too busy, running first the French out of the North and then the Americans out of the South. Neglect reduced many of the great ocher villas to crumbling ghost houses, often with electric wires dangling from broken windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAVING HANOI FROM ITSELF | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

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