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...sidelines, at peace. Only once in recent years has it hit the head-lines: in October 1983, when North Korean terrorists planted a bomb in Rangoon that left four members of the visiting South Korean Cabinet dead. Of late, Burma has stepped up its dealings with China, just a shade, and edged away from the Soviet Union a little. Generally, however, it remains equally indifferent to both East and West: a founding member of the non-aligned movement, Burma was the first to quit it, in 1979, on the ground that it was no longer innocent of superpower politicking...
...larger paintings. Homer had great powers of visual analysis; he could hardly look at a scene without breaking it down and resolving it as structure, and some of his paintings of the Adirondack woods, with their complicated shuttle of vertical trunks against a fluid background of deep autumnal shade, are demonstration pieces of sinewy design. He was able to isolate a motif in action, as though the watercolor were a pseudo photograph. This sometimes looks false, but it was exactly the kind of falsity that appealed to popular taste, and Homer's watercolors of leaping trout and thrashing bass...
...weeks later, Radcliffe got the opportunity to dance one-on-one with the Tigers in the Class of 1999 Cup. Again Princeton proved too powerful, beating the Black and White by a shade under seven seconds...
Stanley N. Katz ’55, who now teaches public and international affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, recalls that the reverberations of the Red Scare tinted certain students’ college experiences a different shade of crimson...
...Made in the Shade When it comes to colorful cosmetics, the eyes have it this spring with makeup artists introducing a soft, powdery palette of colors like lilac, lemon and fuchsia. Estée Lauder's Extravagant Bright collection features limited-edition eye-shadow duos designed to look like a kaleidoscope ($30 each...