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...here and now," on what the group members experience as they sit, lie or touch together. It demands complete openness, honesty and cooperation. As described by the American Psychiatric Association, the encounter group is "a social oasis in which societal norms are explicitly shed. No longer must fa?ades of adequacy, competence, self-sufficiency be borne." Indeed, just the opposite kind of behavior is encouraged. "The group offers intimacy, albeit sometimes a pseudo intimacy-an instant and unreal form of closeness . . . one which has no commitment to permanence...
...picture of Jacqueline Onassis leaving a Manhattan restaurant in a new outfit. The mini was really in when she was photographed emerging from Lafayette one winter day in 1966 with her hemline inches above her knees. Last week it was La Cote Basque and inches above her ankles. Plus fa change...
...façade that Florence's Palazzo Capponi presents to the street is tawny and severe. Unlike Germanic peoples, the Italians built their palaces with austere exteriors, content to have the opulence displayed within. But for the past 15 years, the Palazzo Capponi has defended from public gaze a greater treasure than most. Locked up there was the collection amassed by the late Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi. No outsider knew exactly what it contained and the only people with access to it were the dead count's heirs and a handful of their friends...
...legal authorities about its status. Early this year, at long last, the dispute was finally resolved. The result was a bequest to the city of Florence of 15 ceramic plaques from the della Robbia workshop, 38 pieces of Tuscan Renaissance furniture, 43 prime specimens of majolica and Hispano-Moresque faïence ware, twelve sculptures (capped by Bernini's small but superbly fashioned St. Lawrence on the Grill), and 35 paintings that any museum would be proud to own. Late this month they will go on display at the Pitti Palace in the apartments formerly set aside...
Opinions are mixed also on Roche's overhaul of the monumental classical Fifth Avenue façade, designed in 1896 by Richard Morris Hunt, the leading U.S. architect of his time. Roche has got rid of the wooden outhouse-like box added to cut down drafts at the main entrance, and is providing a spacious, three-tiered staircase flanked on both sides by formal plazas and a serried row of fountains set in reflecting pools. More controversial is his plan to replace Hunt's grand staircase inside with two escalators and a passageway in order to increase...