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Hospital food is dreadful. Hospital bills are frightful. Yet they are nothing compared with the humiliation of the traditional hospital gown, an ill-fitting slice of flimsy fabric secured along the spine by shoelace-style ties that expose patients to drafts in the darnedest places. But the No Moon Co. of La Jolla, Calif., has built a better hospital gown: a soft, thick, robe-like garment with an overlapping flap in the rear held in place by strategically positioned Velcro tabs...
...pursuit of a simpler life with deeper meaning is a major shift in America's private agenda. "This is a rapid and extremely powerful movement," says Ross Goldstein, a San Francisco psychologist and market researcher. "I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country." Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history." Some...
...feelings, from shame to rebellion to cool majesty. And with its sensuous color scheme -- reds, yellows, blues, in bold and subtle tonalities -- Ju Dou looks like a dream of carnage at sunrise. When the couple make love by the dye vat, a long bolt of red fabric unravels past Ju Dou's face: an ornament to her ecstasy and a hint of the blood to be spilled. The lovers cannot wash out the stain of their passion. This is a movie about taint...
From its inception 20 years ago into the fabric of Cambridge's real estate market and political structure, the city's rent control system has been the subject of more controversy than any other issue in City Hall's Sullivan Chamber...
...totally outraged by this [the flag]. I believe in free speech, I believe in diversity, but the entire fabric of the community is being disrupted," said Henry C. Jacotin '94. "I'd prefer to be studying now but the statement has to be made...