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Saint Laurent managed to dominate the news in the semiannual pret-a-porter bazaar -- clothes that are manufactured in quantity at much lower prices than the hand-sewed fantasies of haute couture. It was, however, not his fluent, confident designs but his health that made headlines: the fragile designer was hospitalized a few days before his show. His partner, Pierre Berge, issued a statement blaming nervous exhaustion and emphasizing to an AIDS-ravaged industry that no infectious disease was involved...
...conservatives have long been disturbed by liberal trends at Concordia, which has allowed its professors to inter pret Scripture by the historical-critical method. Using that system, scholars consider the Scriptures in their historical and literary settings, which may suggest that some accounts are myth, others metaphor. Tietjen has forthrightly de fended his faculty against attacks, arguing that God's word was never meant to be judged so factually. Last summer Preus was re-elected overwhelmingly at the Synod convention in New Orleans...
...single moment of the hilarity or deep, eerie fear that the Disney people used to be able to conjure up, or of the sort of visual invention that made the early features so memorable. Robin Hood's basic problem is that it is rather too pret ty and good natured. The animation matches the generally pasteurized quality of the film, although Sir Hiss gets about with considerable ingenuity, and Prince John's court, complete with rhinoceros guards, elephant heralds and assorted tiny animals as creatures in waiting, comports itself with suitable indignity...
Each spring Paris goes a bit mad as it tries to tell the world's women what to wear the following fall and winter. Last week thousands of buyers, retailing executives and journalists turned up for the pret-a-porter (ready-to-wear) shows and found the usual mania. A tightrope walker equiliberated over the crowd jammed into the Commercial Stock Exchange, where a big show was taking place. At Designer Vicky Tiel's "New Tango in Paris" exhibit, dancing models plucked partners from the audience for a whirl around the floor. As always, the gendarmes had crowd...
...different role ? the prison system. The reas? that women fill different role ?-ety so they must be different ? they are different they can h? own colleges and shouldn't be varied. Women's Liberation how social roles have prescribe? men's behavior, not vice vers? Peterson does not even pret? Harvard and Radcliffe are but equal, just separate and d?. He wants to maintain the 4-t? not because they are getting a? education elsewhere but because ? can be better kept in their place where...