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...behind this startlingly swift transformation were at first total strangers to most Chileans. Their faces are now as well known as Chile's soccer players, and something of their personal!ties has begun to emerge from the sleek, 23-story office building in downtown Santiago that serves as junta headquarters. The four leaders...
...deities, substituting a single god, Aten, symbolized by the sun. In fact, he changed his own name to Akhenaten, meaning Useful to Aten. Women's Lib would have loved him: he gave equal billing, in bas-relief and statuary, to his Queen, Nefertiti. She was portrayed in the sleek drapery she might actually have worn, one shoulder bare, a clasp under her right breast. In dark red quartz, the Queen's torso, on loan from the Louvre, is one of the beauties of the exhibition...
...support the construction of a 32-mile tunnel between the Kentish village of Cheriton and Fréthun near Calais. Construction of "the chunnel," as it has been unfortunately dubbed by Britons, is expected to start within 18 months. Estimated cost: $2.1 billion. By 1980, if all goes well, sleek, fast trains will be whisking passengers between London and Paris in a mere 3 hours and 40 minutes...
...NEPTUNE FACTOR dives several leagues under the sea with a sleek submersible that is hunting for a party of stranded aquanauts. The members of the crew and anxious onlookers up top include Walter Pidgeon, Yvette Mimieux and Ernest Borgnine, variously outfitted in starchy white smocks that bespeak technical competence or clinging T shirts that display reassuring reserves of sexuality or brawn. But Ben Gazzara, captain of the Neptune, appears in blue oxford shirt and cranberry cardigan, as if he had suited up for a Sunday brunch. Gazzara further emphasizes his distance from this whole sodden scientific adventure by remaining resolutely...
...Marguerita, one of the friendly public spaces that suddenly open out of the city's alley-like streets into irregular areas of pavement edged with small cafes and trattoria, centered with a carved stone well-head that once furnished the neighborhood with water, and filled, in between, with the sleek, lurking cats that for some reason resemble fish, with kids kicking a soccer ball of the walls or, early in the day, with vegetable stands...