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...Shah of Iran had massed to protest his first state visit to the U.S. in 2½ years. Most of the demonstrators were Iranians studying in the U.S., including some who paid their own way to Washington and some who were assisted by student organizations. Wearing cardboard or muslin masks-to prevent Iranian secret police from photographing them, they said-the protesters bore slogans reading, SHAH: FASCIST MURDERER; SHAH IS A U.S. PUPPET; and CIA OUT OF IRAN...
...array his whole cast of characters by the river bank, setting them down in the hooked squiggles and blots of a reed pen - pure calligraphy, astounding in its vigor. Here is Watteau, constructing with red and black chalk an exact equivalent of the shimmer of light over flesh, muslin and stiff satin that so gripped him in painting...
...walk to Shannon from almost any other part of the University. The ground floor of the building is one large, cold room made colder by the glare of fluorescent lighting. Inside, stage flats, the pine skeletons of platforms, plastic jugs of Elmer's Glue-All and piles of dingy muslin are stacked along several walls. An old upright piano, its guts exposed, has been pushed over to one corner. Grade school desks with writing arms and stenciled numbers on the backs are scattered around the room and an old Mikado poster from the fall is tacked up on one wall...
...they are printed on floating veils of silk, chiffon, muslin and taffeta, one positioned over another...
Country ham doesn't have to come from the smoke house as it once did, whole, wrapped in muslin, and heady with curing spices. Now it comes sliced, in clear plastic, under marketing names--like Andy Griffith's, for instance. Andy Griffith also smiles and solicits for his chain of "old fashion" restaurants across the Carolinas: Y'all come...