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...several variations on the bustle, insouciant and not very subtle. One bouffant day costume featured layers of huge polka dots overlapping like the tiles on a roof. And the hats! Florid Creole cones, luscious layers of peonies topped by an upended straw boater. Befruited skimmers and lacy lampshades. Carmen Miranda would have loved it. So would Elsa Schiaparelli, the imp of '30s couture...
Columbia College will probably not have a women's studies program for years because it has refused to "appoint leading scholars and excellent staff" to found such a course of study, said Miranda Pollard, assistant director of the Institute for Women's Studies, which is part of the university's graduate program...
...talked with reporters. The next morning he boarded a flight for Washington. The movie on board was the felicitously titled Sweet Liberty. The crowd of newsmen that awaited him at Dulles Airport rivaled one that might have gathered for, say, a European head of state. Daniloff's daughter Miranda, 23, handed her parents a dozen yellow roses and a bottle of champagne. Then, her eyes welling up with tears, she pinned a single rose on her father's lapel. His son Caleb presented him with a T shirt originally emblazoned FREE NICK DANILOFF that had been amended to read FREED...
Mingling with Freshmen afterward, Runciemaintained the lighthearted approach he initiatedin his speech. "I thought the Archbishop wasreally funny," said Ana T. Miranda '90 of CanadayHall, "I wasn't expecting that. One of my friendstouched his hand and we asked him to put in a goodword for the Red Sox tonight...
...hand, we had express wishes that he did not want to be swapped for a spy because he is not a spy and therefore the two persons are not equivalent," said Miranda Daniloff, 23, a Chicago-based theater actress...