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...spirit writing and spooks of all sorts. H.P.B. was a fair ly good parlor conjurer (she learned some of her tricks from a Coptic magician in Cairo), and she was quite unashamed about the use of confederates and apparatus. She specialized, rather charmingly, in the invisible mending of broken crock ery and in small gifts and chatty letters from a society of superhuman Masters who dwelt in Tibet. She was a gifted hyp notist of herself and others. When pressed, and if the lights were dim, she could pro duce spectral figures...
...Crock of Ins and Outs
...Washington Post Fashion Editor Nina Hyde's list of what's In and what's Out [Jan. 14]: Damn, I was just about to buy a Crock...
...lipstick, Oxford shirts, marriage, Paddington Bear, diaphragms, Ansel Adams, cone-heel shoes, Meryl Streep, cotton undies, gay waiters, wood-burning stoves, Bruce Springsteen and brown eye shadow. Out: living together, Billy Joel, disco, blue eye shadow, Elvis Costello, the Pill, basketball, Diane Keaton, stiletto heels, Irving Wallace, T shirts, crock pots, Snoopy, cowboy boots, Jane Pauley, nylon undies, open shirts and Mork...
...CRISIS is a crock. The public has caught on to this truth, and many experts agree. The real crisis is a crisis of political institutions. Nationalization might be a sensible step for a government confronting corporations that now behave with the arrogance of mighty sovereign nations. But officials never even debate the merits and drawbacks of nationalization; it's outside the narrow range of the politically possible. One type of government enterprise with historical precedent is the crash program to cope with a crisis or meet a technological challenge. "Manhattan project" and "moonshot" are ritual utterances for politicians trying...