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...Arcs is a tiny jewel for the passionate skier. Situated near Val d'Isère (Killy's home and the site of last winter's disastrous avalanche), it offers 37 miles of breathtaking and challenging slopes. The atmosphere is, to say the least, clubby. Anyone buying into Les Arcs must be approved by a seven-man board of investors. The result is a homogeneous clientele roughly between the ages of 30 and 45, drawn mostly from publishing and the arts. Although it is primarily designed for serious skiers, it also offers a discothèque with...
...goes back to his boyhood in Cincinnati, where he worked after school in his father's hardware store. "I was completely bored by the selling," he recalls, "but in my boredom I found that daydreaming amongst objects of affection was very nice. Commercial paint-color charts were real jewel lists for me." After majoring in painting at Ohio University in Athens, he set off for New York in 1959. Happenings were what was happening, and Dine was soon in the thick of them. "Happenings were good because they got rid of a lot of ideas that could...
...easily stirred, probably by reading the box-office receipts in Variety. Everything about his film is tacky, derivative, finally exploitative-except for a funny and wise performance by Fredric March. As crafty Mayor Jeff Parks, March transforms a dime-store piece like . . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . into a one-jewel movement...
...Pope Paul VI, priestly celibacy is "a crowning jewel" of the Roman Catholic Church. To most former priests, and even to many who have not left clerical ranks, it is more like a crown of thorns. The truth may lie somewhat prosaically between these two opinions. In fact, mandatory celibacy for priests and nuns is not a defined doctrine of the church but a spiritual discipline that only over the course of centuries assumed the force of ecclesiastical...
...early 1950s, the great French architect Le Corbusier designed the city of Chandigarh as a capital for India's sprawling Punjab state. Though shantytowns have long since sprung up alongside its lovely cubes and rectangles, Chandigarh (pop. 150,000) still stands out like an exquisite jewel in the blazing Punjab plain. From the first, however, it has been a jewel with a jinx -accursed, like the Hope diamond...