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...week that the Soviets will not be permitted to occupy their new embassy on Mount Alto in Washington until security can be assured for the U.S. in its new Moscow quarters. He conceded that the red-brick U.S. chancery, whose walls are already water-stained because of its unfinished roof, may be so bug-ridden that it will have to be demolished. The entire complex, which includes 114 occupied residential units and recreational facilities, had been budgeted at $89 million. The cost when it is finished, apart from the electronic cleansing, is now projected at $192 million...
...people came to smell the roses. Montgomery, whose 13-acre concern has a $4.6 million annual billing, said $900,000 of it comes from contacts made at the flower show. He was one of 53 major exhibitors. Their flora took up six acres under the roof of the Philadelphia Civic Center. Montgomery is as good as anyone at giving a primer on the mercantile side of the matter...
...Loco de Amor ("Like a pizza in the rain/ . . . No one wants to take you home/ But I love you just the same"), there is no doubt that this album is a passport to alien territory. The music -- which includes Jerry Harrison's sinister Man with a Gun, the roof-raising African rouser High Life by Sonny Okosun and a Jamaican-flavored remake of the rock war-horse Wild Thing by Sister Carol -- is so shrewdly chosen and sequenced that it becomes an experience on its own, inflected by the film's moods but not dependent on them. Something Wild...
...Cruiser glides through the lion-colored grasses. It is late afternoon, and lions everywhere are rising from their long day's slumber to think about hunting. The driver, a Masai named Simeon K. Londaga, sees the lion and stops and points. Poking his head like a periscope through the roof of the Cruiser, the visitor follows the line of Simeon's finger and gets lost out there in the grasses. He squints as if dialing the eyes to better focus, as if trying to build the platonic lion out of grass. Still the lion will not come. The beast...
...reveal a naughty minicrini at the derriere, highlighted perhaps by flowers or a bow that would do credit to Fergie herself. There were several variations on the bustle, insouciant and not very subtle. One bouffant day costume featured layers of huge polka dots overlapping like the tiles on a roof. And the hats! Florid Creole cones, luscious layers of peonies topped by an upended straw boater. Befruited skimmers and lacy lampshades. Carmen Miranda would have loved it. So would Elsa Schiaparelli, the imp of '30s couture...