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Consumers are showing a renewed taste for extravagance. Among the most popular items are high-fashion clothes and high-tech gadgetry. Shoppers are buying Oriental rugs, videocassette recorders, fur-tipped sweaters, microwave ovens and lots of costume jewelry. In toy departments, traditional and huggable products are upstaging video games. This...
The award is intended to reward research carried out in fields not covered by the Nobel Prizes. The other prize winners are University of Chicago sociologist Edward Shils and an Italian scholar in Oriental Studies, Francesio Gabreli. An awards ceremony is scheduled for February in Switzerland.
Delicately embroidered clothing finely crafted Portuguese lace, multicolored Oriental batiks, and ornate doilies, all created by Cambridge women, will be unveiled tonight as part of an exhibition sponsored by the Cambridge Oral History Center.
White's extraordinary article on China is like the exquisite Oriental vases I often associate with that country: massive, colorful, delicate yet powerfully poignant.
Similar arguments have appeared in the Soviet press and in academic publications with increasing regularity in recent years, a direct result of the rising fortunes of one man. E.M. Primakov, director since 1973 of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Primakov's reinterpretation...