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...biggest bay is intended for special exhibits and, fittingly enough for the opening, it will be devoted to the work of the greatest of all U.S. glassmakers, Louis Comfort Tiffany. Specifically, it will celebrate 16 stained-glass windows that Tiffany treasured and installed in his lavish house in Oyster Bay, N.Y. The house burned to the ground in 1957, but somehow these windows survived and were bought by Hugh McKean, then president of Rollins College, and his wife Jeanette, a longtime Tiffany collector. With the windows, the McKeans set up a gallery near their home in Winter Park, Fla. Only...
...Petroleum Exporting Countries get together, two things seem certain: they will bicker vociferously among themselves, and then they will raise the price of their precious crude. That is precisely what happened at the OPEC oil ministers' 57th meeting last week at the El Aurassi hotel in Algiers. After lavish feasting on caviar and couscous, the oil ministers argued until 3 a.m. but then reached a compromise that allowed some of them to push the price of oil still higher. The 13 countries decided to set a price ceiling of $32 per bbl. on crude. For certain higher quality grades...
...month season, which normally finishes in June, is being extended through Aug. 3 this year to accommodate Olympics visitors. To the international audiences that will soon flock to the Bolshoi Theater, the company may still seem to be a marvel of Moscow, an institution that glories in lavish productions and virtuoso dancing. But to dance buffs, the current season has been lackluster, relying heavily on stock repertory and a dwindling pool of leading dancers. The most eagerly anticipated new production, Plisetskaya's The Sea Gull, which she performed to music composed by her husband, Rodion Shchedrin, evoked the atmosphere...
...worth of fireworks greeted Haiti's President for Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 28, and his bride Michèle Bennett, 27. The couple emerged under crossed sabers from the freshly refurbished cathedral of Port-au-Prince after a $3 million wedding, the country's most lavish social event in two decades. Said the bride, with a smile: "We'll make lots of children and live happily ever after...
...ingredient, what he calls an "effervescent giddiness." It is not a bad analysis, and Star Wars had more of it than does The Empire. There are many amusing scenes, as before mostly involving Artoo Detoo, Threepio and Chewbacca. Lucas' imagination once again lays out its bounty in a lavish and wonderful spread. The invention of Yoda alone would keep many film makers bragging for years. Lucas adds ice monsters, strange-looking beasts-half dinosaur, half llama-that can be ridden bareback, the city in the clouds, and at least one surprising twist of plot involving Luke and Darth Vader...