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...moderate Arabs and setting off backlashes. Last year's Operation Bright Star rushed 4,500 R.D.F. personnel to Egypt with great fanfare and the highly publicized spectacle of B-52s bombing targets in the desert. This year, when the Pentagon began planning a new war game, code-named Jade Tiger, Washington discovered that Cairo was reluctant to play. In addition to resenting last year's headlines, the Egyptians were miffed because, in their view, the U.S. had failed to use its influence with the Israelis to advance the West Bank autonomy talks. That was, of course, before President...
...done in suede. And it can mix with anything-silk, a sweater, tweeds, linen or cotton." The new leather, made ideally from the South African hair sheep, comes in starbursts of colors: fire-engine red, hot and soft pink, vivid green, fuchsia, indigo blue, yellow, apricot, jade, turquoise and purple. The thinness of the leather and the satiny texture are due mainly to the use of new lubricating oils and chemicals in the tanning process. The new lubricants permit the leather to be cut thinner while retaining its inherent strength and softness. The bright colors are simply a result...
...Springfield silversmith, lapidary and jade carver, Morss said she wants to give an opportunity to the many poverty-stricken people "for whom the door never opens...
...focuses his fiercest and most striking images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...
...novel's hero, a professor of Sinology, Dr. Kien, is unaware of the world outside his 25,000-volume library. When he marries his housekeeper, a consuming mother figure, his hermitage, like the Vienna around him, turns berserk. Kien is driven from his jade tower into the night gallery of prostitutes, beggars and thieves, and his dream of completing a volume on Oriental thought becomes a demented Psychology of Trousers. Finally regaining his library, Kien sets it ablaze, immolating himself in the flames. This disturbing tale was to be the first of eight, a cycle titled The Human Comedy...