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...enormous range of opportunities early in life that guarantees their later success. They live in a literate environment, with books all around. The average overprivileged child of three or four will pull a volume down from the shelf of the family library and read as fast as he can slit open the pages. In the evening his parents will sip martinis or discuss the editorials of The New York Times, either way providing a stimulating environment for their schoolchild. By listening in on the parental conversations -- "Bill and Mary are getting divorced" or "the market slumped twenty points in late...
Saturday night, the same Miss M came to Boston for a one-night stand at the Music Hall. From the moment she first shimmied onto the stage in her tacky white slit-to-the-hip lamee costume and belted out her frenzied version of "Friends," she had her sparkle-studded, magenta-lipped fans by the balls. Her act--a frantic combination of boogie-woogie and early 60's "trash"--is an orgiastic experience that is uniquely Bette...
...form galleries, offices and storage space; their roofs, sheathed unexpectedly in lead, glisten like old pewter in the sun. The sixth is open, a portico opening generously toward the street (below, opposite). Inside the museum, this conversation of silvery tones resumes as the sun spills through a long slit in the roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung on yokes. The light washes the plain concrete surface of the cycloids, gently blending warmer reflections from a white oak floor. Curve answers to curve, vault to channel. There is no glare...
...skyjackers were linked with the Eritrean Liberation Front, which has long been fighting to free Ethiopia's northernmost province. In 1970 two other Eritrean rebels attempted a similar skyjack. They were subdued by security men who neatly tucked towels on the seats behind the culprits and then slit their throats...
...took five stitches to sew up the slit over his left eye, and he bled for the first time in his professional career. Still, with a 41-lb. weight advantage. Heavyweight ex-Champion Muhammad Ali succeeded in clobbering Light Heavyweight Champion Bob Foster in Stateline, Nev.-knocking him down seven times and finishing him off with a knockout in the eighth round. "All through the fight, he gave me trouble," Ali admitted. "I got bruised and I got cut, something Joe Frazier or nobody else could do." But as he held an ice pack to his eye, Ali added...