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...patient of Sexologist Havelock Ellis, who described her in his autobiography as "a shy sinuous figure, so slender and so tall that she seemed frail, yet lithe, one divined, of firm and solid texture." Freud, who analyzed her in the early '30s for $25 a session, told her she was a classic example of bisexuality. H.D.'s own ideal was not a psychological abstraction but a statue of a sleeping hermaphrodite that she had seen as a young woman at the Diocletian Gallery in Rome...
...buildings that reconnect functional modern architecture with classic and familiar gestures, the best is Philip Johnson and John Burgee's AT&T building in New York City. Many critics who earlier chattered indignantly about the building's Chippendale pediment now realize that in fact it tops a slender, handsomely articulated granite tower best described as noble. Nor does it just stand there. It rises impressively out of the confusion of Madison Avenue and gives that teeming thoroughfare a much needed lift...
...started." A distracted Kohl did not intervene between his quarreling partners; at one point in the session, to the annoyance of other summiteers, he slipped away to a Greek TV center for a three-way conversation with President Reagan and the West German astronaut aboard Skylab. After the slender hope of a last-minute compromise vanished during the closing summit dinner, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi told the press, "If I may use metaphorical language, we failed to elect a new Pope, and there is black smoke." With the health of the Community hanging in the balance, the question...
...Third World, is on assignment for the London Sunday Times. He and Thompson are unlikely friends. The gonzo journalist is quirky, boisterous, happiest when surrounded by cronies in the hotel bar; the gentleman writer is quiet, refined, more comfortable at afternoon tea. But careering around the island, chasing slender threads of news, they seem a matched pair. "It's like having a third eye," Thompson says. "He's sane and has a crazy sense of humor...
...waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly...