Word: silks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's fate may now rest with a seven-member commission that has been poring over Waldheim's war record since September. Chaired by Hans Rudolf Kurz, a Swiss military historian, the panel has met for a week each month to sift 30 pounds of documents in the red silk-lined chambers of the Austrian State Archives. Scheduled to release its report on Feb. 2, the commission seems certain to go beyond the narrow question of whether Waldheim committed war crimes and to explore such issues as how much Waldheim knew and whether he acted to save lives...
First coffee--in the form of Spanish dancers, castanets in hand--and then tea--sensuous gymnasts whose physical stunts amaze. Cossack dancers kick and flip over the stage. Chinese dancers come with small attendants who wave long, sinuous orange silk banners. Tutued marzipan with silly caps and then roses, with skirts of petals...
...time to turn over a new leaf. The deans conferred and debated, weighing the different strategies by which Harvard students could be reined in, while drinking strong martinis and getting stoned. "How 'bout mandatory breakfast? Yeah that's the ticket. How 'bout a dress code, tuxes for the guys, silk bikinis for the girls?" said one dean...
...kind of tie you'd be ashamed to wear," Consoli said. "The tie is made of 100 percent silk...
...Buffett," he says of the parsimonious Nebraskan financier, "who pride themselves on living in their first house and driving a used Chevy to work, despite being billionaires." Aside from Goldsmith's Paris home and his town houses in New York and London -- all filled with antique furniture, paintings, statues, silk hangings -- he has just acquired a 16,000-acre hideaway on northwestern Mexico's Gulf of California. "It's the most beautiful place I've ever seen," he says. "It's got the sea, mountains, rivers, lakes. Most of the land is being turned into an ecological reserve...