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Simonetta Vespucci, the mistress of Giuliano de' Medici, died of tuberculosis at 23, but it is said Botticelli used her lissome and rhythmical curves as the model for Venus on her half-shell and Flora in La Primavera. Vespucci may have looked like that, or she may not. Maybe she was a blond pudge like Pamela Anderson. Getting tumbled in a wave of neo-Platonic fantasizing about how outer shape mirrors inner essence--"For Soule is Forme, and doth the Bodie make," wrote the poet Spenser in 1596--may be great for the figure and complexion when court painters like...
...servings of Pasta Primavera...
...Cristy Castellano '99 prefers a less caloric meal, "Healthy Choice of course," she says. Lean Cuisine, another brand for the health-conscious consumer, has earned the praise of certain Harvard students. "I don't really eat [frozen dinners], but on occasion I eat Lean Cuisine TM Angel Hair Pasta Primavera," confides Nora H. Zimmett...
Columbia suffered some key losses in the backfield as well, most notably Siggy Valtysson. But Co-Captain Oren Plitman returns to lead a veteran defensive corps that includes classmates Dennis Comstock and Nick Primavera...
...chemicals seized during Operation Primavera were stored in standing tanks or 55-gal. drums. In some cases the drums were stacked 15 ft. high, creating Andean peaks of testimony to the proportions of the smuggling operation. Ethyl ether, for example, is essential to the final processing of cocaine base into a white hydrochloride powder. The manufacture of ethyl ether has been outlawed in Colombia, and importation is closely regulated. A 55-gal. drum of ethyl ether that sells for $500 in the U.S. fetches more than $12,000 in Colombia. Says Alfonso Barragan, president of the Colombian Society of Chemical...