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Searching for a "cherry waffle knit" to stave off the February chill? Dying for a "sky popover"? If you have a hearty appetite, you can devour pages of seemingly delectable delights--pages of the latest J. Crew catalog...
...Titian. Drawing creates more of his pictorial structure than color does; yet he was a marvelous colorist, suave, moody at times, and capable of a mysterious lyricism that reminds you of Giorgione, his senior by only a few years. Except that the color goes to extremes: icing-green, purple, sky blue and orange, oddly predicting the dissonant colors of Mannerism...
...been for that gridiron great (at least in the eyes of NFL owners) Rupert Murdoch. The Australian-born boss of News Corp. has reordered the economics of sports. Murdoch views sports not as mere programming but as the foundation for establishing entire television (Fox) and satellite (British Sky Broadcasting) networks. From this perspective, it makes sense to pay more for the NFL than you can get back in advertising revenues. Murdoch fired that thunderbolt in 1994, paying $1.58 billion for the NFC package, 49% more than CBS had been paying. News Corp. wrote off some $350 million after the swipe...
...favorably with their peers brought up in unbroken "straight" households. There are far more children looking for adoptive parents than people willing to adopt. Adoption officials have to deal with reality. Their options, when considering the best interests of each child, should not be limited by pie-in-the-sky delusions. WILLIAM C. STOSINE Iowa City...
That day's weather slug? "Chicken Little was right," we told our readers. The sky had indeed fallen, but The Crimson kept right on printing. President, 105th Executive Board