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...perilous journey to find their true king, the Simorgh. The few survivors find that the quest was a moral lesson-to look for the Simorgh within themselves. The playgoers' reward is the way the actors become birds, with gold, red and white beaks, and swatches of silk plumage...
JAMES LEE Byars strolls the little garden of the Busch-Reisinger Museum like an aristocrat who is more accustomed to walking across acres of a grassy estate. He wears a black hat, a black silk scarf, a black coat, black pants, white buckskins, and has the gait of a dreamer entranced by a grander age. It is not so strange that a man with such an uncommonly impeccable appearance should have created something inside the Busch-Reisinger entitled "The Exhibition of Perfect...
...name labels. Says Armond Suacci, manager of Cable Car Clothiers in San Francisco: "Preppie people do not need designers because they already have taste in clothing." So far, the designer who has done most to popularize the look is Ralph Lauren, whose crested navy blazer costs $480; his silk pants sell...
...Proposition 2 1/2, a bill backed by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts and Citizens for Limited Taxation, which would roll back property tax levels to 2 1/2 per cent of assessed valuations. That wouldn't hurt some towns--outside Rte. 128, past Revere and Quincy, to Boston's silk-stocking suburbs, or down on the Cape--these tracts already enjoy a trim 2 1/2 per cent rate. For Cambridge, though, with property taxes currently at about 5 per cent of its value, things would be a bit tougher. Under the law, which would probably pass if voters went...
...songs with classmates. But Japan's handsome Prince Hiro also respects tradition. So last week, having just turned 20, he participated in an exotic 8th century coming-of-age ceremony called kakan no gi (hat rites). Hiro, wearing a magnificent yellow robe, allowed chamberlains to replace the simple silk hat that once marked a minor with the ornate embi no ei (swallowtail ribbons) that symbolized manhood in ancient Japan. The presence of Grandfather Emperor Hirohito, 78, at the ceremony was especially auspicious. No other Japanese monarch has ever lived long enough to see a grandson switch hats...