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...verify whether you are on the guest list for their black-tie soiree. If all else fails, there is probably still time to scribble out a $10,000 check to the United World College of the American West and attend the gala dinner in Palm Beach, Fla...
...flowers, porcelain birds of jeweled hues, drapes copied from the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna . . . Oriental carpets resting on Lauder blue carpeting . . . It's very thrilling." Estee Lauder loves her lavish office. She is equally entranced by her three-story Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen gab--is that Lauder so heartily enjoys her success and so clearly...
...Call of the Klondike (1950) and Northwest Territory (1952), onetime radio entertainer, and lately goodwill ambassador for Cypress Gardens, an entertainment park in central Florida; in an automobile accident en route to view last week's space shuttle lift-off as an invited guest of NASA; in Titusville, Fla...
...issue of music censorship received national attention following a series of circus-like Senate hearings that pitted the likes of Sen. Paula Hawkins (R-Fla.) and Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) against Zappa and Dee Snyder of the heavy metal faves Twisted Sister...
Though many educators agree with Bennett's latest broadside, it stirred angry reactions. Said Ralph Robinett, administrator of bilingual education in Dade County, Fla.: "It is the old story of the power structure being out of tune with the ethnic makeup of the community." Nathan Quinones, a Hispanic and chancellor of New York City's public schools, where 86,000 students are in bilingual programs, was quietly unhappy. Bennett's emphasis on English, he said, "implies that if you do anything other than what is professed by Bennett . . . you may not be American...