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...most voluptuous real estate in the U.S. Down tree-lined boulevards, the murmur of nannies cooing into baby carriages and gardeners snipping the gardenias is drowned out by earthmoving, sawing, hammering, and the cursing of drivers trying to park beside a line of lunch wagons, cement mixers and Porta Pottis. To date, hundreds of older homes in the area have been destroyed for the simple reason that the original "dungalows" were worth so much less than the land underneath them. Palatial homes whose scale is limited only by the owners' taste and imagination are rising in their place. Typically...
...reason for this is largely historical. Europeans, intoxicated with the cult of the Noble Savage, got interested in Hawaii through the Pacific explorers of the 18th century. Large quantities of porta ble Hawaiian artifacts went back on the boats to Europe, where they remain in the British Museum and other collections from Ireland to Germany. European collectors also gathered most of the paintings and drawings of real historical significance that whites made of Hawaii. (How much clearer our sense of English cultural attitudes to the Hawaiians would be, for instance, if the show had borrowed Johann Zoffany's ambitious...
...Okay, listen, you bring the wall-length mirror and I'll bring the porta-bar and we can turn our room into a dance studio. You do dance...
...Press customers are still buying natty clothes, but not so many of them. "Instead of buying two suits and a jacket, someone will buy just a suit and a jacket," manager Joseph Porta said. "People don't know what the future will bring but they do know that we have an after-Christmas sale," he added...
...offers various courses in video, from video sociology to TV production to video anthropology. Any student who wants to do a video project and has a professor's approval can use free of charge, the equipment and studios of the Central Video Services, which include no fewer than 150 porta-paks. Director of Video Instruction at B.U., Peter Burrel, says the B.U. video program is oriented toward a meeting of the minds between the "artists and the plumbers" of the video world and further directed toward encouraging students to use their video skills in community service. The program is supported...