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...equaled itself since. The introduction of a sporty new sedan, orchestrated by Iacocca, typified the wonderful wantonness. In 1966 he sailed dozens of Lincoln-Mercury dealers to the Virgin Islands, where after a meal on a beach at sunset, an amphibious landing craft thrashed ashore. Out onto the sand popped a brand-new white Cougar driven by Singer Vic Damone, who proceeded to croon...
...like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like a pale lunar egg, hanging on the brown sand as the moon hangs in the blue night. Reproduced a millionfold, this oneiric image became the Guernica of the tots, the standard decor of upper-middle-class childhood. Such fame, decanted on a single picture, can distort an artist's entire reputation...
Harassment claims have resurfaced this semester. In February Currier House Junior Remigie Cruz '86 filed his second formal harassment complaint against the department. He argued that two officers, who said they stopped Cruz on suspicion of wearing illegal sand-filled gloves, had halted him because he was Puerto Rican. Cruz said this was the sixth time Harvard police had stopped him without adequate reason. A week later minority student Juan Gutierrez filed a harassment complaint claiming he had been subjected to unnecessary harassment by a Harvard guard while night-guarding at Currier House during the fall semester...
...other sun-center starting with an M, "the new Malibu look" has has asymmetrical shirts, pants with cargo pockets, pencil pockets, bomb bay pockets, and even pocket pockets, and wide-shouldered, durable windbreakers in every shade compatible with sand...
...riot last month at Crossroads, a wretched black squatters' camp on the sand dunes outside Cape Town, resulted in the deaths of 18 blacks and injuries to 250 others. It also brought calls from many in South Africa's shocked tricameral Parliament for a plan to allow the shantytown's 60,000 inhabitants to stay on permanently. Last week Gerrit Viljoen, South Africa's Minister of Cooperation and Development, conceded. He was prepared, he said, to allow "upgrading and development" of the area to provide adequate housing for those qualifying, based on the length of their residence and permanent employment...