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Reeves has shown a strong commitment to town-gown cooperation throughout his terms as mayor. He is well-known to University officials and is an active participant in community events that take advantage of the University's resources, such as this summer's senior citizens' day. We also applaud Reeves' efforts to improve math and science curricula in Cambridge's public schools...
...closest he came to the rococo sparkle of English portraiture was in his 1767 portrait of Nicholas Boylston, Boston's biggest luxury-goods importer: blue-chinned, sharp-eyed and relaxed in his morning panoply of damask dressing gown, unbuttoned waistcoat (showing the careless ease of the gentleman) and velvet turban. His ships ply the sea behind him, and his arm rests on an account ledger. As art historian Paul Staiti observes in an excellent catalog essay, Copley's clients liked his style because it was so embedded in the world of substance and inventories that had made them what they...
Early on, the thing had a sweet, slapdash air. In 1933 Marian Bergeron, Miss Connecticut, was summoned offstage and a producer said, "My God, she's it!" She was handed a strapless white satin gown and told to take off her bathing suit and change--right there in the wings. Bergeron, now 77 but a decorous 15 at the time, refused: "So two chaperones built a little screen around me, and I put on the gown. Six boys and two girls put a gorgeous robe over my shoulder--it had a train half the size of our living room...
...Saturday night, when most Harvard students will be taking advantage of the weekend before classes start, Marcia M. Turner '97 will be walking on stage in a black evening gown at the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City...
...Miss America competition, to be held in September, will consist of four sections: the evening gown and swimsuit competitions, each worth 15 percent of the overall score, (seerelated story, this page), the12-and-a-half-minute interview, worth 30 percent,and the talent competition, worth 40 percent...