Word: kit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believer's apartment. Cronin and several others gathered around a table with their crystals and sniffed from scent bottles, all the while humming seven musical notes. She did not discover her inner spirit, but she did find the New Age's spirit of commercialism: a chakra-balancing kit was offered for sale...
...tally came at the 32-minute mark of thefirst half. Sophomore midfielder Kit Schwartzmanchipped a corner kick to Co-Captain TheresaHirschauer. who headed it past Whitley...
Written by Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James Ivory...
...husband "could not know the world unless a woman translated it for him." It is generally a small world that the couples and the uncoupled inhabit in these stories. Most are set in the New England exurbs whose historical and residential enchantments are mainstays of Updike's magic kit. An exception is The Ideal Village, about a party of gringo fact finders in the jungle settlement of a sect of Central American social visionaries. The story is to the others in the book what The Coup is to Updike's other novels, a public variation on the folly of private...
...little creature comfort for Hamnett, Sam and young William (born in 1981), like the getaway cottage the family keeps in Majorca. It also permits the designer an occasional indulgence (her North London office, walled round with papier-mache rock, looks like Plato's cave built from a prefab kit) and a healthy dose of esthetic restiveness. "I try to be creative and earn money at it," she says. "But it's like being a painter and having a gun pointed at you. I envy Marcel Duchamp for just stopping. Though he had a rich wife." Hamnett's Buddhism keeps...