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...Environment. Offshore oil-tract leasing procedures and toxic-substance regulations could be overruled by House or Senate. Any federal sale of land parcels larger than 2,500 acres could be scotched. In 1981 Interior Secretary James Watt was stopped by a House committee from leasing mineral rights to 1.5 million acres of Montana wilderness...
...Editor in chief of French Vogue in the 1960s, she met De la Renta in Paris and brought her elegance and experience to Vogue in New York, becoming an arbiter of taste and fashion among a wide circle of friends. Her lavishly decorated homes in Manhattan and Connecticut influenced interior decorating trends, and she most recently served as editor at large for the revamped House and Garden...
...days without charges. Within 24 hours, police had arrested 200 people, although all but 14 were subsequently released. The harsh actions run counter to the government's efforts to promote democracy in Peru, but they reflect the seriousness of the challenge the insurgents now pose. Admits an Interior Ministry official: "We underestimated Sendero...
...rushed into the offices of the Center, chasing out staff members and physically assaulting those who resisted. They gave Benjamin H. Brown, director of the Fellows Program, a serious gash above the ear, and once inside the building, they painted the slogans 'Pig' and 'Fuck US Imperialism' on the interior walls...
...most skillful, Nichols tellingly evokes the Joycean interior monologue in which the tingling shock effect is that of making the holy ritual of the confessional an open secret. In one scene, James is at a one-woman show of Kate's photographs, and his alter ego speaks: "Shall I say it then, in front of all these people? She took my hand and placed it high on her thigh, raising her skirt and slightly opening her legs . . . And all the time we kept talking in loud voices about Cartier-Bresson and was photography an art." Using the same device...