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...sure that's the way to start fighting inflation." Counters Inauguration Co-Chairman Robert Gray: "If the swearing-in of a President is not worthy of the dignity of formal clothes, then we should do away with them." Reagan aides hint that he may also distinguish the event with an as yet undisclosed gesture that will rival Carter's celebrated walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Boasts Gray: "People will remember more about this President's Inauguration than how he got home...
...prolific is nothing-it fails to distinguish an artist from a grunion-but Nevelson's abundant output has also been, until quite recently, strictly edited, so that it bears an imposing sense of consistency and energy. There are 80-year-old artists who are content to repeat their own formal inventions as clichés. Most, though not all, of Nevelson's work is free from that tendency. If she is not one of the great formal innovators of modern sculpture-and her contribution to its syntax cannot fairly be compared with Picasso's, Tatlin...
...teachers, agronomists and doctors. One of the friends he made there, a nuclear physicist, received a Nobel nomination three years ago. "They were splendid people who did marvelous work--people who deserved to be honored by their government, not punished by it," he says. The wardens were hard to distinguish from common criminals...
...machine first stuns the animal with an electric shock, then closes in with its shears. Clipping the back and sides is not too hard, but the technicians still report "significant difficulties" in finishing up the neck and head. In Japan, Mitsubishi has devised a robot that can visually distinguish different species...
Durst's senior teammates--many veterans of the same freshman year starting team--continued to distinguish themselves all year long. Linebacker Bob Woolway, the classy defensive signal-caller and three-year starter, played impressive ball down to the end, as did the other defensive tackle, Tim Paimer, the team's leading tackler. Big-play artist Mike Jacobs and Matt Foley leave a secondary that was probably the best in the league this year; and next year's defensive backfield, anchored by Ivy interception leader Rocky Delgadillo and new captain Pete Coppinger, figures to lead the League again...