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...great seal of Maryland bears the Italian aphorism Fatti maschii, parole femine, which comes from Colony Founder Lord Baltimore's coat of arms and is stamped on all official documents. One translation is "Deeds are manly, words are womanly," though a looser rendering is "Let women talk and men act." The motto has irritated feminists, who have been trying for years but have failed to get it changed. Now Republican Senator Howard A. Denis of Montgomery County has taken up the women's cause, urging that a special commission search for a nonsexist alternative...
...Evian" was painted in 1900, and its view of the waterfront could only have been from an elegant carriage on the sloping road above. The work shows an afternoon hazyhot, captured forever beneath a coat of varnish, fresh sea air sealed in with this sketch of an age one imagines in likewise indefinite terms. Binet was very fond of flowers and there are several rather innocuous but decorative paintings of poppies, roses or a flowering tree over a stream. And yet one begins to wonder about this artist while looking at "Saint Mandrier," a view of boats moored...
...court, every seat was taken by the time the principals began arriving. Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor, former Solicitor General and special Watergate prosecutor, was resplendent in black cutaway, striped tie and a matching gray crew cut. So was Wade McCree, in the Solicitor General's traditional morning coat. At precisely 10 that Wednesday morning, the court clerk intoned "Oyez, oyez," and the nine black-robed Justices suddenly appeared from behind red velvet curtains and settled into their seats at the elevated bench. The stage was set for what could turn out to be the most important civil rights...
...home and dramatically suffers through her first failures and successes. Cantankerous Dashiell Hammett, Hellman's long-term lover (Jason Robards), calmly listens as Hellman agonizes over such moral dilemmas as whether to contribute part of her unexpectedly large royalties to a good political cause or to buy a sable coat. (We never rind out which she opts...
Remember when the gift of a vicuna coat was enough to get a respectable Republican hounded out of Washington...