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...Says Francoise: "It forces me to exteriorize my sentiments, using only my voice, my eyes and my face." Translation: she can't move. Less weighty are the glittering chain tunics and boleros of Loris Azzaro, at 35 the fastest rising designer in Paris. True, the chain micro-dress he turned out for Brigitte Bardot's New Year TV special weighed eight pounds, but that did not prevent BB from wearing it several times since for dancing at New Jimmy...
...construction is a cross between a set from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Disneyland. Is it art? Directors of museums and owners of art galleries insist that it, and similar installations, are. The general term for them is "environments"; their aim is to box the spectator within a micro-universe and bombard him from all sides with wacky sights, weirdo sounds and otherworldly sensations, ranging from the feeling of weightlessness to hopped-up, psychedelic hallucinations. So popular with the general public have they become that dozens of contemporary museums and galleries feel obligated to display at least one major...
...year exile in Prague. This time, said Raúl, Escalante had organized an anti-Castro movement that extended into several key government ministries, the University of Havana, the Academy of Sciences, several youth organizations and even the Central Committee itself. With his contacts, Escalante and his "micro-fraction" reportedly filched secret government documents and spread anti-Castro propaganda among both Cubans and foreign Communists, particularly the Russians...
...Micro-mini is scientifically acceptable according to the International Committee on Weights and Measures but micro-micro since 1963 has been replaced by pica (pronounced peek-o). GEORGE COATS Physicist U.S. Public Health Service Winchester, Mass...
...anywhere at all that youth defiantly chooses to show its colors. By general agreement, a true mini rises to just mid-thigh. But with dresses growing shorter by the season, whole new categories have had to be advanced. "Now," notes one San Francisco designer, "there is the micromini, the micro-micro, the 'Oh, My God' and the 'Hello, Officer...