Word: rareness
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DIED. Louise Brooks, 78, jazz-age actress of rare beauty and artless eroticism who animated the silents' stereotype of the flapper in such films as Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926), deepened and darkened her allure in A Girl in Every Port (1928) and reached her apex as Lulu, the embodiment of sexual energy and evil in Austrian Filmmaker G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box and its sequel Diary of a Lost Girl (1929); of a heart attack; in Rochester. Unable or unwilling to accommodate to the Hollywood system, she saw her star fade out by 1940. Her crisp essays...
...there were no positive seeds," said the smooth Soviet as his private talk with Reagan was about to begin, "we would not have met at all." The challenge of Geneva will be to nourish, rather than trample upon, seeds that by even the most optimistic reading are exceedingly rare and fragile. --By George J. Church. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Johanna McGeary/New York
...Administration opponents, that kind of judicial restraint sounds like an attack on three decades of decisions expanding basic rights. Liberal Justice William Brennan was sufficiently troubled to make a rare off-the-bench speech on the subject. "We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th century Americans," Brennan unrepentantly told a Georgetown University audience three weeks ago. It is "little more than arrogance" to believe that anyone can "gauge accurately the intent of the framers." Last week Moderate Justice John Paul Stevens weighed in with remarks to a group of Chicago lawyers, attacking...
...growing these rare plants, the center expects eventually to reintroduce some into their natural habitats and to satisfy the needs of both researchers and collectors. The collectors, oddly enough, have contributed to the near extinction of several species. One victim is the Knowlton cactus, the first endangered species cataloged by the center. Says Donald Falk, the center's administrative director: "Collectors will go out and decimate populations, uprooting the cactus to send it back to live on windowsills...
...that rare feeling of a genuine emotional encounter between male and female that probably best explains the show's success. "The thought of going to New York was frightening," says Orezzoli. It was a little bit of a kamikaze decision." On such decisions are fortunes made. The Broadway run, originally scheduled for five weeks, has been extended at least through New Year's, and after New York, Tango will make an extensive North American tour. The dancers want the whole world to love those crazy steps. "The tango is the star of the show," asserts Elvira Santa Mar?...