Word: duked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Battle projects a captivating, gentle beauty. She is the undisputed best-dressed concert performer in the business, appearing on stage adorned in gowns created by her friend Ter-Arutunian, who is better known as a designer of opera, ballet and theater costumes and sets. For a PBS special on Duke Ellington he fashioned a sinuous red number that suited the song Creole Love Call; for her Carnegie Hall performance of Semele, based on a mythological subject, he produced a one-shoulder dress that suggested a Grecian column. "In a live performance, who doesn't listen with their eyes as well...
...wine cooler half the size of a Jacuzzi; from Johan Zoffany's courteous but plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered blue-and-cream silk were recently found in their original...
...culture can be understood without these places; they matter far more as social evidence than most Italian palazzi or French chateaus. The ritual of public visits is not at all new. Some great houses have been open to curious strangers since the day they were built (even the 1st Duke of Marlborough was pestered by tourists in 1711 while building Blenheim...
...personal records of top high school recruits are carefully checked. No blatant jock courses are offered, and close to 80% of football lettermen have received their diplomas. At the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill campus, basketball players must sit out one game for every class cut. Duke University for many years has allowed no appeals by coaches on its strictly academic admissions standards, and Notre Dame combines tough entrance requirements with close monitoring of academic performance. Both of the latter two schools have recorded superb graduation rates for athletes: about 86% of football players for Duke...
...time the effort appears to be more intense. But will it work? For one thing, alcohol is considered a cure-all for everything from flu to frostbite. For another, vodka is a traditional refuge from the hardships of Russian life, and that is as true today as ever, says Duke University's Vladimir Treml, an expert on alcoholism in the U.S.S.R. "Soviet life is so boring," he says. "Housing is crowded, there are not enough entertainment facilities. So people drink...