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...Baltzell stopped short of saying that the class was designed specifically for athletes, but considering the makeup and the topics covered—the syllabus’ lecture topics range from “Coaching and Being Coached” to “Drug Use in Sport and Exercise”—it’s easy to see who the class has in mind...
...member’s desk where she can practice using her red “Denied” rubber stamp. The past four months have been a period of intense discussion about what it means to be educated in today’s society, punctuated by skirmishes over the makeup of the distribution areas. We hope that the Faculty avoids provincial squabbling over exactly whose courses will count for General Education credit and focuses on the big picture. With some key adjustments we will have the backbone of a strong system, and the hardest part—implementation?...
...spectacular. The designer, who seemed to have been languishing lately under directives to create salable clothes, let his wacky imagination soar again--this time from the couture ateliers of Paris all the way to the cherry-blossom-filled gardens of Kyoto. One after another, models in geisha makeup and with orchids and ikebana arrangements caught up in their hair emerged in glorious confections that recalled hand-painted kimonos, origami folds and even the bark of a bonsai tree. Backstage, the designer described the show as Christian Dior meeting Puccini's Madama Butterfly...
...early stages, Platoon's I-was-there authenticity does nothing but call attention to itself. That big ugly swirl of a scar across Barnes' cheek, for example, inevitably provokes thoughts of an early-morning makeup call. Then two things happen: the actors stop attitudinizing and fall smartly into their roles, and the rivalry between Barnes and Elias begins to suppurate sensationally. Elias, a night-world Natty Bumppo, believes only in his skills and his men; he is both in Viet Nam and above it. Barnes can act as impromptu medic to save a soldier's life or, with equal vigor...
...living rooms, then began renting public school rooms at $5 to $10 a night. To promote his curriculum, which he dubbed the Learning Annex, he took $5,000 that he had saved from his Bar Mitzvah, printed a course brochure, dressed up as a clown complete with whiteface makeup "to differentiate myself from people giving out porn stuff," and handed out the booklets in Grand Central station. Then he raced back to a tiny basement office in a building just off Central Park and waited for the phone to ring...