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Charles L. Slichter '45, who chaired the search committee that selected current President Neil L. Rudenstine, said that the presidential search committee needs to be coy when dealing with the Overseers...
...coy. You have no plans to rush out and buy the latest $10,000 magazine-dress with matching velvet smoking glove hat. No, you're looking at these photos because you want to know what those madcap geniuses were up to at the haute-couture fashion shows in Paris last week. In a naked plea for publicity, Seredin and Vasilev unveiled a dress made from Vogue covers (left), as well as a knockoff of the classic Chanel suit done entirely in not-quite-body-covering pearls. Christian Lacroix appeared to take inspiration from the fluttery fashions of ice skaters (lower...
...Clinton's utter profanity that makes him so appealing, both today and eight years ago. To listen to Marcus, one would think that America really does want a pathological liar, a hip-gyrating panderer in the Oval Office. When we gasp at Clinton's antics, we're just being coy, since we all knew from the beginning that electing Clinton meant electing President Sex Machine, and that the consequences would be more entertaining than anything we'd had in years...
...coy need not come...
...through Amanda's mind, a smaller portion through Ruth's, and the rest through regular third-person narration. The transitions seem a little jumpy and awkward at first, but Schwarz soon finds a smooth rhythm of backing and forthing, one that forestalls certain disclosures without seeming excessively calculating or coy. As the years pass on the farm and in the small village nearby--the Great Depression in the outside world is manifested here only as collapsing milk prices--the hope arises that maybe there was no dark secret about Mattie's death or that the ripples from that long...