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...younger public. On opening night, for example, a gifted newcomer named Nancy Williams sang Phaedra, while Dido and Aeneas were handsomely dispatched by International Stars Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart. The audience reflected the casting: brocaded ladies and black-tie escorts presumably for Lear and Stewart, denim and leather for Williams...
...1990s, and the sign of the cross has become an anachronism. A Third and Fourth Vatican Council have come and gone. The Vatican, now thoroughly embroiled in a highly ecumenical superchurch, dutifully processes assignments through World Ecumen Council headquarters in Amsterdam. Priests skitter about the world in gray-green denim fatigues, carrying musette bags and spreading a gospel of social revolution. The father general of an old monastic order called the Albanesians is preparing to preside over the first phases of a new ecumenical breakthrough: dialogue with the Buddhists...
Farr wore the same light blue denim shirt and dark denim pants as the 3,700 other inmates, but there the similarity ended. One of the senior jail officials came by frequently to chat. "He was a reader of Intellectual Digest," Farr said. "We would discuss how to run the jail. He's very serious about trying to treat his prisoners differently, because he believes in the innocent-until-proven-guilty thing...
...police report described both of the robbers as about twenty, black, and clad in blue denim jackets and pants. One carried a nickel-plated revolver in a brown paper bag, the other was armed with a hunting knife...
...with its Vega and Ford with the Pinto, American Motors spent a remarkably low $5,000,000 and simply cut down the Hornet. As a result, the company produces the only subcompact with a six-cylinder engine (the others have four cylinders). Its latest gimmick is to offer optional denim upholstery by Levi Strauss. Together, the Hornet and Gremlin ring up two-thirds of American Motors' car sales...