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...those who will not scrimp on slumber, some U.S. stores are stocking super-sheets. Macy's in Manhattan has some by France's Porthault that have hand-sewn scalloped edges and are made of 100% cotton, but might as well be gold: a queen-size set costs $645. Uptown at Bloomingdale's, a set of cotton sheets, pillow cases and comforters by Italy's T&J Vestor goes for $5,000. Big-ticket bedding is "a fashion statement," says Bloomies. It could also serve as a bank statement...
...Lanka is awakening from a long socialist slumber. The severe shortages of such necessities as cloth, soap and matches that bedeviled consumers just two years ago have disappeared. Sarong-clad peasants fire bricks in newly made kilns alongside their coconut groves and paddyfields. The hotels are overbooked with foreign businessmen eager to add to the growing flood of investment from overseas. Since it overwhelmed the leftist regime of Mrs. Srimavo Bandaranaike in the 1977 national elections, the government of President Junius Jayawardene has been chipping away at one of the most complicated and burdensome combinations of restrictive regulation and high...
...NATURE OF GOD. God! There is no god but He-the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him, nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures as) Before or After or Behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth. His Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them...
...once before, in the disastrous denouement of the otherwise vivid 3 Women, but he has never let such pedantry overwhelm an entire movie. The results seem not only silly but insincere. For all the soppy lip service Altman pays to life, his film never attempts to arise from the slumber of the dead...
Something about the Ivy Championships stirred the Women's swim team out of its seasonal slumber yesterday at Yale, because nearly every racer swam her fastest and four women qualified for the AIAW Nationals next month...