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This was the scene last week at the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the Christmas visit by four clergymen. The churchmen were French-born Léon-Etienne Cardinal Duval, Catholic Archbishop of Algiers, and three liberal American clerics: William Sloane Coffin Jr., senior minister of New York City's interdenominational Riverside Church; Thomas J. Gumbleton, Catholic auxiliary bishop of Detroit; and M. William Howard, president of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A...
...average temperatures and the quaintness of the island, with its Spanish and Bahamian roots, bought up and restored many of the Conch-style cottages and rambling homes in the Old Town section. Prices there tripled in three years. The shops along drowsy and all-but-derelict Duval Street were renovated and transformed; the old Kress dime store became Fast Buck Freddie's, a trendy shoppe. Five hundred new hotel and motel units were built, with 450 more plus a convention center on the drawing board...
...melange of life-styles is best viewed in the kaleidoscope of scenes each evening at sunset. Many Northern tourists stroll from the boutiques and galleries of renovated Duval Street to the Mallory Square dock to soak up the impromptu theater-jugglers, bands, ventriloquists, and an iguana man who lets children pet the iguanas he walks on a leash. As the sun disappears below the horizon, the crowd applauds. Tourists now outnumber the youths and leftover hippies who founded sunset watching on the dock as a communal mystical experience a decade ago. The easy movers are now more likely to spend...
...else has Glen Loates' eye for detail, his sense of place and his ability to capture every hair, quill and feather with pencil or brush. Admirers, and the uninitiated, can sate themselves by exploring this brilliant full-length collection. The Art of Glen Loates by Paul Duval (Cerebrus/Prentice-Hall; unpaginated; $35) traces the evolution of the artist's unique style and may inspire some readers to emulate his practice of stalking the wilds to get close to his subjects. But not too close. One of Loates' grizzly bears is lifelike enough on the printed page; after seeing...
MARRIED. Anna Karina, 38, ex-wife and protégée of France's New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard, and Daniel Duval, 34, also a film director; she for the third time, he for the first; in La Garde-Freinet, France...