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Thefts: A portable radio/cassette layer valued at $105 was reported stolen from a room in Canaday Hall sometime between 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The victim told police he left the room unlocked during...
...never seen a winter this hard on deer," says Joe Gerrans, a Colorado wildlife supervisor. The snows came unusually early, so the herds had only a brief time for winter foraging. Now much of the sagebrush and other shrubs is covered by a layer of snow so thick and crusty that the hungry animals are roaming toward settled areas for food. They often wander plowed roads and railroad tracks: 400 antelope were struck and killed by trains in one week in Carbon County, Wyo. Where prey go, predators follow: coyotes are coming close to towns to eat deer. Or whatever...
...more recently, returned bullets and heavy shelling. Nothing seems more antithetical to the purpose of a peacekeeping mission than the sight of the guns of the New Jersey pounding the hills outside Beirut to protect U.S. ground forces there--a scene re-enacted only days ago. This newest layer of violence in a country already "blessed" with more than its due, is a straightforward and compelling case for withdrawal...
...imagery, like so many soda jerks trying to push a quart of French vanilla into a pint container. "The problem is compression," says Julian Temple, who has made some 60 videos, including a current dazzler of the Rolling Stones' Undercover of the Night. "You have to layer each shot with a lot of meaning. When you see a video the first time you should get the overall idea. When you see it again, you should get a little more, and a little more again the third time. It's like the time-release cold capsule...
Like many other clothes from the late '50s and early '60s, the trapeze still looks easy and contemporary. It is only by lifting the hem that the intricacy of its high-fashion construction is seen: the organza underskirt with horsehair lining in the hem covering a tulle layer and another of silk. Saint Laurent's loose outline for daytime wear turns up repeatedly in his work over the years: the famous Mondrian skimmers of the '60s, the chemise in his latest collection, which has been installed by the fashion press as the silhouette of choice...