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...much to applaud (if not to afford): daytime sportswear that emphasized soft, easy cardigan suits and jackets; fox-trimmed jackets and sweaters to go with classic sporty pleated skirts and big tentlike shelter coats. Gimmickry was no one's gimmick: even flights of fancy-veiled hats, ostrich-feather trims and dyed gold cobra coats-bespoke a hand of cool restraint...
Burlesque isn't dead as long as Sally Rand can lift a shocking pink ostrich-feather fan. At a benefit for Phoenix House, the Manhattan drug rehabilitation center, Sally, 69, got most of the midnight whistles from the Roseland crowd studded with names, from Senator Jacob Javits (in black tie) to ex-Evangelist Marjoe (in jeans...
...honors departments--History and Literature, History and Science, and Social Studies--are also a bird of a different feather, primarily because they demand more of their students in terms of the variety of requirements. These fields limit the number of concentrators and contend that they provide more rigorous training, and, therefore, one would expect some consistency in the number of summas and magnas they award. But the departments show little statistical consistency in the granting of honors...
Light as a Feather (Chick Corea, pianist, Polydor; $5.98). Imagine Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 playing variations on Miles Davis and you get some idea of the results produced here by Jazz Pianist Chick Corea and his group Return to Forever. This is an ingenious blend of Latin, pop and jazz, both traditional and avantgarde...
Thomson acknowledges that receiving a Nieman Fellowship is considered an award by members of the profession and that it puts a feather in the cap of young journalists...