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...Moser, 47, a onetime college professor who runs a furniture workshop in a former Grange hall in New Gloucester, shuns ornament - the joints in his furniture are the only decorative elements. Moser works mostly in red-hued cherry. He says, "It's stable and tools well. You can sand it to a beautiful polish." Moser never uses stains...
...first waves of Israeli jets concentrated on P.L.O. targets in Beirut and its outskirts. Though the bombs were aimed mostly at guerrilla bases and other P.L.O. installations, attacks were made on such nonmilitary areas as Family Beach, a popular stretch of sand and surf just south of the beleaguered capital. Israel's planes hammered hard at Beirut's Sports City, a former stadium that is now a storage depot for food and supplies for Al Fatah, a commando group of the P.L.O. Two floors of the structure collapsed under fire, burying guerrillas and their families in a broken...
...Shields to slip into a Geoffrey Beene tuxedo bathing suit? Come to think of it, who cares why she did it? Having turned 17 last week, Brooke, the lovely duckling, has clearly grown into a long, lean swan. Later this year she embarks on Sahara, another splendor-in-the-sand epic in which she will play, for the first time, a woman. In the film, Brooke winds up racing a 1928 Packard in a trans-Sahara race. Will she bring her black-tie bathing suit? That was just for show. Personally, she prefers the informality of a well-worn Speedo...
...investment that most people make. In California, where home prices have more than quadrupled since 1970, the impact of foreclosures may be especially damaging. Says Shulman: "People here have been counting on their homes to build their fortunes." Those fortunes increasingly look as if they may be built on sand...
...worship with my fellow undergraduates...I don't like the denominational spirit in general, and this was a good chance to escape it for four years." As well, it was a chance to watch friends who "go to church once a year, coming in unwashed, unshaven, with the sand still in the corners of their eyes." For someone who believes "the whole point of a church is to be inclusive," that was refreshing...