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Looking resplendent in furs, Sophia Loren, 40, went skiing in France's Haute-Savoie with Husband Carlo Ponti, 61, and sons Cipì, 6, and Dodo, 2. Sophia avoided going downhill, however, preferring cross-country, and did so well that she extracted praise from her instructor. "Comme elle est belle," an onlooker was heard to say, more in tribute to Sophia than to her skiing. The rest of the family cautiously kept off the slopes. Après-ski, Cipì was Mama's favorite escort, going so far as to take Sophia to a restaurant for fondue...
...just so I can say I did it. Let me put it this way: I think God invented the dodo bird so when we get up there we could tell him, 'Don't you ever make mistakes?' And he'd say, 'Sure, look.' I'd like to make my imprint. My dodo bird. A mistake, mine...
Durrell is horrified by this irony and notes that the last passenger pigeon on earth died in 1914−in a zoo. He has chosen the extinct dodo as SAFE'S emblem, and sports a button reading "Dodo Power," in the hope of dramatizing the urgency of the situation: the flightless bird was extinct only 186 years after Europeans landed on its home island of Mauritius. "The dodo was part of a delicate spider web that connects us all," says Durrell. "Every time you muck about with that web, it sends tremors all the way through...
...Expressionist prints now at the Fogg is ample evidence that this broadly worded statement did not force die Brucke's members into a single style. Gauguin's influence is very strong in Erich Heckel's woodcuts. Ludwig Kirchner, the leader of the group, learned about composition from Matisse (as Dodo Reclining shows). And one of Kirchner's later woodcuts, Dr. Bauer, demonstrates his debt to Picasso...
...Manhattan's newly opened Bailiwick candle shop. "You know, the return to romance and sensitivity, a return to basic sanity." Bailiwick's bewildering variety of candles also helps bring in customers. In addition to the plain-Jane 25? blackout specials, the store sells candles shaped like dodo birds, penguins, onions, eggs, baskets of blueberries, footballs and, at $40, the leaning tower of Pisa...