Word: downrightness
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...male graduation, seems an especially appropriate time to call for their demise. While the all-male clubs persist with no end in sight, there has been more widespread recognition this year than in the past by the administration and elements within the student body that the clubs are downright destructive...
...life, the jilted who stalk and harass their former lovers are usually seen as forlorn creatures, objects of pity, if not downright contempt. In the movies (Play Misty for Me, Fatal Attraction), they are more often seen as menaces of a more melodramatic, if not downright terrifying, kind. What no one up to now has ever imagined is that people caught up in this common form of temporary insanity might possibly provide the premise for a romantic comedy...
...like a breeze. Pale tones, cool watercolors and neutrals are popping up all over in soft materials such as light wools, chiffon, crepe de chine and jersey. For the more daring, there's the citrus palette, with all its variations on lime green, orange and yellow. And for the downright bold, sheer fabrics are moving into daywear--although they're usually doubled in thickness, lined or worn with a body suit so that the nonexhibitionist majority can join in the fun. Still, some of the looks are so light and lingerie-like, it seems as if the designers are seeing...
MOVIES . . . ADDICTED TO LOVE: In life, jilted lovers who stalk and harass their former lovers are usually seen as forlorn creatures, objects of pity, if not downright contempt, writes TIME Movie Critic Richard Schickel. In the movies (?Play Misty for Me,? ?Fatal Attraction?) they are more often seen as menaces of a more melodramatic, if not downright terrifying kind. What no one up to now has ever imagined is that people caught up in this quite common form of temporary insanity might possibly provide the premise for a romantic comedy. But that?s precisely what director Griffin Dunne and writer...
...matter how thick the ice is, the waters beneath it must still be liquid, thanks to tidal heating. This is good news for biology. Scientists don't pretend to know how warm a Europan ocean might be, but even waters that are just a degree above freezing would feel downright balmy to organisms that evolved...