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...funds permit. A museum of the completed pieces has drawn 10,000 visitors during the current holy days. In addition to such items as trumpets, lyres and lots, the institute is preparing vestments for the priests-in-waiting. According to Scripture, the clothing must be painstakingly made with flax spun by hand into six-stranded threads...
...typically funkier, looser-fitting and more cosmopolitan, "classics with a European twist," as Tweeds President Jeff Aschkenes, 46, puts it. Many outfits are made of linen, this year's trendy fabric, and come in offbeat colors. Examples: pleated, prewashed linen trousers ($59) available in Moroccan brown, sage, cadet or flax; and cotton- Lycra pants ($29) in the colors of sky and palm. Tweeds' designers take about four trips to Europe each year to observe -- and sometimes borrow -- the latest Continental fashions and fabrics...
...intolerant values. We have all swallowed homophobic attitudes: straight, bi and gay alike. It is fruitless to waste energy sidetracking the issue to defend our egos to each other; we must take what we have and make it better. There is no use for complacency here, only improvement. Elizabeth Flax...
...25th wedding anniversary approaches, Paulie Flax, a household-hints columnist for her local suburban newspaper, views her marriage to Howard, who years ago traded in his jazz saxophone for a Long Island recording studio, with unfaltering logic: the passion has gone out of their union; therefore she must leave him. But fate intervenes, as it always does in a comedy of mores. When Howard suffers a heart attack, Paulie sets aside her resolve -- until she uncovers his passing liaison with a would-be Mme. de Pompadour of the shopping malls. That propels her into New York City, where Son Jason...
...took two years and about $700,000, hewed closely to original techniques, using Oregon pine (Mediterranean pines no longer grow tall and straight enough), 22,000 oak dowels and 17,000 handmade nails. A major deviation: the builders substituted steel rope for the hypozomata, the two lengths of twisted flax rope that ran from stem to stern to help hold the trireme together. Says Coates of the ancient mariners: "Oh, they were very, very good indeed. The design was driven to the limit. It was built for speed...