Word: gown
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QUIET, PALM-SHADED UNIVERSITY in Southern California with $90 million budget and more than 30,000 students devoted to academics and outdoor recreation needs new leader w/achieved academic excellence and interest in town-gown harmony. Experience in running state institutions helpful; Predecessor Brage Golding was capable administrator but fought ceaselessly with divided 23-member trustee board (half appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, half by former Governor Ronald Reagan); Golding fled to Kent State, attributing fondness for Ohio to fact that "the state legislature there meets only once every two years." Salary: $41,000 to $55,000. Use of state...
...down by eliminating exorbitant salaries of city employees, which he says take up 80 per cent of the city's budget as well as providing patronage slots. Duehay also supports environmental and energy conservation. He has served on the council for four terms, and believes he "bridges town and gown" in his understanding of both Cambridge and university interests...
...moved out of the Orient with clothes that suggest rollicking pirates (some of his models even wore black eyepatch-es), swashbuckling naval officers, and the Indians of the Raj, decked out in white duck and Nehru caps. Kenzo also displayed some opulent evening wear, notably a blue gown that exposed the model's left breast. (Who needs jewelry?) His fabrics?including linens and striped cottons?are more refined, and his colors eclectically electric...
...Harvard building in the backyard. But unfortunately, this community group lacks the kind of energy it needs to stop it. The fight against the Kennedy Library gained momentum as time wore on and finally succeeded in wearing Harvard out, thus breaking a long string of Harvard victories in town-gown fights. But now it looks like old times again...
...Dracula's would-be bride for all of eternity, Ann Sachs is a delectably enticing houri in a negligee, or a slinky gown that might well pass for a negligee. Looking much like a vapid blonde flapper out of a 1920s perfume advertisement, she exudes a musk of sensuality that obviously makes Dracula yearn for more than blood. The rest of the cast is exemplary, and the sounds of baying offstage hounds are ear-tingling. But the show belongs first, last, and almost always to Gorey and Langella...