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...banking industry's worries about the Lance affair. As Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann declared in his report last month, the OMB director's finances raised "unresolved questions as to what constitutes acceptable banking practice." Bankers fear that congressional reformers will seize on the nationwide hue and cry over Lance to resolve those questions by further tightening of federal banking laws...
...theme: a knee-high can be rolled down to become a cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they can also be funny.) Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every hue and mix and material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...
...blue that feels warm, something that cannot be accounted for chemically or technically but only as a state of mind." This blue has literary prototypes, embedded in Motherwell's reading of French verse. It is Mallarmé's azur, the color of oceanic satisfaction. It is the hue of Baudelaire's sea, the color of escape. But it is also pure ideated feeling. One cannot say that a painting like Summer Open, with Mediterranean Blue, 1974, with its softly respirant field of ultramarine, "depicts" a seascape. But the feeling of look ing at it will be instantly...
...everything in short supply, Saigon's peddlers hawk an abundance of goods, from government-sponsored lottery tickets to ceramic elephants and noodle soup. The 250-seat Rex Cabaret continues to operate, featuring some of the performers who once entertained American troops. On a recent evening, for example, Cathy Hue belted out her rendition of Granada to about a dozen tea-sipping Australian tourists...
After yesterday's first round, there was a united hue and cry over the shoddy condition of the course's greens. Although Pleasant Valley is an 18 of true championship caliber, the majority of the greens are in the midst of being aerated. The 18th green is being remodeled so that a makeshift green situated on a steep incline is being used. Any player who hits a shot onto the 18th green is therefore automatically awarded two putts. "It's really unfortunate to have a major tournament decided this way," Crimson coach Bob Donovan said yesterday...