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Often as not, the men who hold the stars in their places are Jon Bell, an intern studying to be a planetarium director, and Joe Doti, engineer. Except for the subdued glow from green and red console lights, they work in darkness. "It only takes a few weeks to learn how to operate, but you must know the basics of astronomy," says Bell. He is whispering as the display goes on, and his tone suggests an acolyte trying not to disturb a service. Every time he does a show, he admits, he feels a shiver synapsing down his spine...
Like a Scene from Dante, the night sky south of Villahermosa is filled with a fiery glow. It comes from great gouts of flame that flare off natural gas from scores of wells dotting the steamy marshes, scrubs and jungles of the aptly named state of Tabasco in southeast Mexico. Every day, 300 million cu. ft. of gas, enough to supply the energy needs of Vermont for a month, are simply burned off, in part, because the U.S. Government refuses to pay the price that Mexico demands. The huge gas supply and the appalling waste are symbolic of the future...
...price. Under Bergerac's constant questioning about "Who is the Borghese woman?" aides finally defined her as a person of sophisticated elegance?and, one gathers, refined eroticism. Ads for Borghese perfume ("The Perfume of the Night") feature an obviously nude woman, her head and shoulders bathed in a rosy glow, the rest of her body outlined in deep shadow. Bergerac's favorite ad, which shows a bare-breasted Borghese woman in silhouette, also ran in the Revlon annual report...
...dance away every minute of the ball if she so wishes. Photographers will be on hand, naturally, constantly taking candid and posed pictures, which they will gladly (and expensively) collate into a leather album. In this way, the memories of this glorious evening can, with a little prompting, glow in her heart forever...
...says it all about the 1978 edition of the Harvard women's field hockey squad, which is using the euphoric after-glow of last weekend's first-ever victory over the Tigers to get primed for the upcoming EAIAW Regional Qualifying Tournament. And when you sit down and analyze the depth and strengths of this year's unit, a trip to the national tourney by the Cambridge stickers is not such a far-fetched scenario...