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...started out like one more straightforward publicity triumph for India's Reita Faria, 23, the reigning Miss World. Reita called a press conference in London to announce her efflorescence as a dress designer; a few days later, under the crest of Irvine Sellars' House of Fashion, she modeled ten outfits that she said she had nimble-thimbled her self. Hold on, yelped Sellars Designer Jane Fox, 22. "I did the sketches, cut the material, had the patterns and samples cut. Reita Faria couldn't tell sacking from silk." Well, said dauntless Reita, "the ideas and the influence...
...series with California clearly demonstrated the team's pitching ineptitude. On Tuesday Waslewski got bombed. On Wednesday, Brandon was bombed. On Thursday, Stange was bombed. And yet, despite this, Boston won two of three games from a third-place team which had come into the series on the crest of a six-game winning streak. In Thursday's game, played before a larger-than-capacity crowd, Boston scored three runs in the last of the ninth to tie the game, and won it in the tenth...
...Island's insightful and eminently readable poetry concentrates on easily recognizable, sometimes commonplace, experiences and feelings. In "The Crest of the Rut," for example, Stuart Davis writes about Cambridge, an ambitious subject for a short poem. Davis' observations are to be taken seriously; but he presents them in the almost comic perspective of someone resigned to the frustration that most students have, at some time, associated with the city: Gashed egos siren here...
Antonioni is intensely serious about life and about art. His new film, Blow-Up, deals with the difficulty of commitment to a worthwhile life through art. Antonioni's fashion photographer hero, a 25-year-old dissipated cherub brilliantly played by David Hemmings, has learned how to ride the crest of the mod culture wave; he got rich quick, drives a Rolls, and takes sex and marijuana with the casual detachment that marks him and his kind. He seems, as Time describes, "a little fungus that is apt to grow in a decaying society...
Chosen to head the new theatre was Robert H. Chapman, then associate professor of English. Chapman had come to Harvard on a crest of popularity -- the adaptation he co-authored of Billy Budd was an immense critical success off-Broadway. While the merits of his anti-McCarthy play The General were hotly debated, it was anti-McCarthy, and its production at Harvard generated an aura of romantivism about its author...