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...entertainment means magazine business. Parties are held at her Southampton beachfront mansion or cavernous Fifth Avenue apartment with its giant de Koonings, vast Persian rugs and a paralyzing view of Central Park. The service is formal but the tone relaxed. At a recent dinner for potential advertisers, Georgette Mosbacher, flame-haired CEO of La Prairie skin-care company and wife of the Secretary of Commerce, griped acidly about "the hatchet job" the Washington Post magazine had done on her. "What did they call you?" Lear asked. " 'Glamorous,' " drawled Mosbacher. "Take it, honey," barked Lear. "They call me 'eccentric.' " Under...
...basic problem is that my common room is to noise what the eternal flame is to illumination. If the radio isn't blaring, my roommates are on the phone. If the phone isn't in use, they are laughing about their Ec 10 problem sets...
Design-wise, the simple, rectangular building will complement the ultramodern, cement Carpenter Center and the majestic red-brick Fogg without mimicking either. To enhance the structural unity are the proposed exterior materials, "warm gray" porcelain metal panels, honed, green Vermont slate tiles and flame-finished pink granite, "intended to mediate the monolithic scale of the concrete Carpenter Center on the one hand, and the brick of the Fogg on the other...
...least that's what the hoofers hope. But the group of old tap dancing pros who sit on the third floor of Sonny's dreaming of the days before rock'n roll can't be sure whether a worn pair of shoes, an old flame and good music will be enough to convince Max to live an honest life...
...befell the Scottish village during Christmas week of 1988. At dinnertime last Wednesday, on the first night of winter, a rain of fire and metal suddenly fell on Lockerbie, destroying houses and automobiles and scattering debris as far as 80 miles away. Some called it a "great ball of flame" and likened it to a fire storm or a mighty clap of thunder, while others wondered if it was the result of an accident at a nearby nuclear plant...