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...served as President of Lebanon from 1970 to 1976 and is now an ally of Jumblatt's in the Syrian-backed National Salvation Front. Eddé, who went into exile because of fears of assassination, is the country's most popular politician, mainly because of his gilt-edged reputation for honesty. He is also stubborn, which would probably earn him a veto from Syria. Franjieh, on the other hand, is obviously on good terms with Damascus, and would enjoy its support...
...more Americans have jobs this Christmas than last, and people are less concerned about losing employment. Last week the Federal Reserve reported that consumer installment debt rose a record $4.9 billion in October, a sure sign that consumers expect the business recovery to continue. Observes Beverly Garner, owner of Gilt Edge Gifts in Cincinnati: "Shoppers don't have the down-in-the-mouth look they had last year. I can't overemphasize the change in attitude." Chicago Advertising Executive Maribeth Auer had cut back on store-bought gifts during the recession, baking cookies for friends instead. This year...
...English born and Oxford educated Knowles also is pursed for personal assets, stick as an eloquent public speaking number and it gilt for diplomacy. Moreover, as some one who has stayed out of the limelight especially on sabbatical this year. Knowles seems to have avoided gelling involved in contentious issues that divide Faculty opinion...
...usually felt to be in a subclass of their own. They are incomplete notes. Who could deduce from Hockney's brisk studies for the mechanical bird in Le Rossignol, for instance, the surprise of its actual intrusion on the stage of the Met, a blazing vermilion-and-gilt apparition in that gauzy, lyric ambiance of K'ang-Hsi porcelain blue? The drawing just looks like a canary on a toy red cart. Yet ingenuity can bridge many gaps, and Hockney is nothing if not ingenious...
However brazen the bluff, the name-dropping worked. To prospective investors, Rewald looked gilt-edged by association: he bought a $950,000 house previously owned by deposed Cambodian Strongman Lon Nol and became chummy with Jack Lord, star of the 1968-80 Hawaii Five-O TV series. "Investors" included Lieut. General Arnold Braswell, the Air Force's retiring Pacific commander (more than $100,000), and John Kindschi, the former CIA chief in Honolulu...