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Debutante parties may have lost some of their luster along Philadelphia's Main Line and Boston's North Shore, but in Dallas they are still the measure of a woman with social ambitions. Someone's daddy could have made half a billion in the oil patch, but if the breeding isn't right, his baby won't be a Dallas deb. "You have no idea what a great honor it is to be a debutante in Dallas," says Mimi's grandmother, Florra Anderson. Mimi is one of only nine debutantes in Dallas this year...
...palaces. One knows Lady Diana read some of those same fairy tales, as certainly as one knows that, when they look to be coming true on July 29, she will continue to shine and star. Always, of course, within the bounds of what is seemly; the consort's luster must not dim the King. Eventually, as Queen, Lady Diana will wear a crown with the 109-carat Kohinoor diamond as its centerpiece. This royal geegaw has been out of circulation for years. Watching Lady Diana, whether accepting a flower from a schoolboy or negotiating a receiving line, one wonders...
...special makeup effects may deserve extended study, but the movie shouldn't stop dead in its lycanthropic tracks while a man turns oh-so-slowly into a werewolf-twice. Though The Howling is doing big business with the women-in-jeopardy crowd, it will add no luster to its makers' reputations. Mark this one off as a Sayles slip...
Except at Easter, when they cling glutinously to countless baskets of green plastic grass, jelly beans have never ranked high in the American sweet-tooth sweepstakes. Now, with Ronald Reagan in the White House, they seem fated to achieve the luster that the praline of sugar and nuts enjoyed in the court of France's Louis XIV.* Jelly bean consumption is jumping, not only in the capital but throughout the rest of the country as well...
...circuit court judges (of more than 600) stepped out of their robes, compared with eight in the '60s and seven in the decade before that. The trend has brought warnings from the legal establishment that the nation's treasured federal bench is in danger of losing its luster. Observers fret not only about the increased number of departures but also about the erosion of morale among those who remain. An equally distressing, although incalculable effect is the possible decrease of top candidates for judicial openings...