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During the development of the Mus tang, Ford Motor Co. shaped the car's bucket seats to the specifications of those on the British Ford - only to find it necessary to change the design almost immediately. Five years later, with the Mustang's popularity firmly established, company officials can smile about the costly changeover. "We re alized," says one, "that American buttocks are larger than British." To guard against just that kind of mistake, U.S. business is relying increasingly on the fast-growing science of anthropometry, which systematically studies man's ever-changing anatomical measurements and applies...
What happens off the premises, however, may be something else. Some of the 155 hosts keep expensive apartments in Tokyo's poshest districts. At least one commutes to work in a Mus tang, which retails for $10,000 in Japan. Through tips, a few make as much as $900 a month, but usually for working later than the clubs' 6-to-ll:30 p.m. hours. Despite the rules, hosts sometimes leave arm-in-arm with their clients at closing time. "Ladies have just as much right as men to decide what to do for the rest...
This summer, marking the centenary of Vuillard's birth, Paris' Musée de L'Orangerie has mounted a retrospective of his works (see color opposite), which are displayed along with those of his brother-in-law and lifelong friend, Ker-Xavier Roussel. Both were contributors to the mighty explosion that was impressionism, but their visual worlds were quite different. Vuillard was essentially a realist, a chronicler of bourgeois life. Roussel, with his nymphs and gods, was a dreamer, trying to transplant classical Greece into the French landscape...
...women's roles, was delighted with the results. "Underlying the love scenes be tween Orlando and Rosalind there is an incandescent purity," he says. "Men are somehow better at this than wom en. Actresses, even the best ones, are likely to gush a little." Williams is mus ing over other possibilities: "It might be interesting to do Antony and Cleopa tra with a man as Cleopatra. There isn't a female around who can really play that role...
...considered the best and biggest; it now enrolls 67 graduate students. Yet even Cornell has turned out only two Viet Nam experts at the Ph.D. level. Only a few thoroughly grounded Viet Nam scholars teach regularly in the U.S., the most notable of them being Paul Mus, a Frenchman who divides his time between Yale and the College de France...