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They're lonely over at Briggs Cage. The men's varsity basketball team, recently recovered from a mini-slump and playing exciting if not technically perfect ball, drew fewer people to last Thursday's game than visitor St. Anselm. Saturday night, a game against Vermont came down to the final second of overtime. It was heart-stopping--for the couple of hundred hearts watching...
Vreeland's higgledy-piggledy does have the effect of a kaleidoscope. One sees the arrival of the mini, the pantsuit for day and the androgynous "smoking" for night, boots, turtlenecks, sporty furs. Picasso keeps reappearing, usually in witty design quotations. So do plaids; in 1979, Saint Laurent's heart went deep into the Scottish Highlands, and he made a formidable, fanciful rig. Except for his Mondrian motif, Saint Laurent was not comfortable with minis; the late '60s belonged to André Courrèges. In fact, despite the influence of specific designs, Saint Laurent has not always...
...consensus was that the package deserved careful study. Even Weinberger was cautiously favorable, in part because Ikle liked certain aspects of the scheme. A "mini-group" was set up to make a recommendation. Its chairman was Robert McFarlane, then Clark's deputy, later his successor as National Security Adviser...
...cigarette holder in one hand, gin-and-tonic in the other, Thompson is covering the goings-on in Grenada for Rolling Stone. This time he has no "Great Red Shark," the rented Chevy convertible in his account of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but a rented fire-red mini Moke, an open-sided vehicle that honeymooners use on Caribbean beach tours. He also has a press pass, plenty of Dunhills and unlimited credit at the Red Crab. Just like the old days, only now his faithful companion is not a 300-lb. Samoan attorney, it is V.S. Naipaul...
...CASE! It set new lows in participatory journalism. In the 1960s it bedecked its most fetching female reporter in the stingiest miniskirt available, sent her sashaying down Main Street, photographed the event and published the pictures across the top of Page One under the screaming pronouncement LOVE IS A MINI-SPLENDORED THING! For all this silliness, it had a down-home feel to it, and readers who stuck with it professed to prefer its casualness to the seriousness of the morning alternative. A sweet potato that looked just like Charles de Gaulle was news enough for them...