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Which she certainly should, unless the Emanuels go overboard. According to the Guardian, the couple's "extravagant high-society gowns often go well past the borderline of the erotic . . . Their rapid fame has been based largely on exotic, intricately decorated, grand evening gowns which blend the pre-Raphaelite and Nell Gwynne styles. Demand for their work, which they advertise as 'bringing glamour back to evening clothes,' has grown as jet-set and upper-class balls have become more nostalgically lavish in times of general gloom." British commentators noted happily that Di seems determined to project a style...
...trip was even more eventful than the voyage across the Atlantic. Said Maxie: "We went from ecstasy to despair at least once a day." After they lifted off from Fort Baker on San Francisco Bay at 12:33 a.m. on May 8, Maxie and Kris threw overboard 1,000 lbs. of sand and water ballast and rose to 23,000 ft. There they had to don cumbersome oxygen masks and heavy parkas, but caught a breeze that sent them northeast...
Generally, Morgan confines his discussions of Maugham's works to fruitful explorations of the characters. Occasionally, however, he goes overboard in his psychological dissection: "Bertha's finger fetishism begins to seem like an unconscious homosexual fantasy of the author's." When Morgan sticks to the biographical narrative he has researched so well, he fares much better...
...about the help that the Japanese have been giving Iran. In Paris, Vance provided an earful of complaints to Japanese Foreign Minister Saburo Okita, who was in the city for a meeting of the International Energy Agency. A U.S. official charged that Tokyo has allowed Japanese banks to "go overboard" in helping Iran circumvent the financial problems caused by the assets freeze. In addition, he said, some Japanese trading companies have rushed "with unseemly haste" to buy 21 million bbl. of Iranian oil that had been destined for the U.S. before Carter halted oil imports from Iran last month...
...walked into the holiday assembly program in the Hayward Elementary School in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and found youngsters, including his kindergarten-age son Justin, giving out with O Come All Ye Faithful and Silent Night. Then a teacher quizzed them on the religious theme. "They had just gone overboard," Florey recalls. The result is the first federal court test of whether performance of religious Christmas music, a perennial issue in many cities, should be banished from public schools on grounds of church-state separation...