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...pigs wallowing in mud hung heavily over the abandoned quarry. Six small children sat around an open wood fire eating their breakfast of bread and coffee. Two women scrubbed clothes in the open while a small boy struggled under the weight of two five-gallon cans of water slung from a pole across his shoulders...
...less is more," in Architect Mies van der Rohe's famed phrase, this winter's new handbags are the most. Smaller than the standard envelope, minibags can be clutched in the hand, slung across a shoulder, hung from the neck or draped from the waist. The smaller the bag, the tinier the tag. One of ten models designed by Manhattan's Shirl Miller, a simple vinyl bagatelle retailing for $8, has sold more than 1 million. Other designs in more elegant materials can cost upwards of $100. The boom in bags has puzzled its beneficiaries. Says Bloomingdale...
...They should be around, say department-store buyers, at least until next spring. New York Designer Albert Capraro is so confident of the vogue that he has designed minis for tunics, jumpsuits, sundresses, pajamas and long gowns. "They are very sexy," he says. "Toward evening when they are slung lower on the hips, they are even sexier...
Yellow Pages. Since 1972 Smith has been working on a different kind of surface: paintings like canvas kites, stretched on rods, hung on strings and ribbons from the wall or slung, like Yellow Pages (1975), from the roof. They are as light, demountable and unpretentious as toys or banners. "I'd been dissatisfied with the physical heaviness of my paintings," Smith says. "I was using too many resources; they looked light on the walls, but there was all that scaffolding and framing under them...
...suggested that Jack purchase a tuxedo ("You'll be needing it now") and start teeing off, as the President frequently does, at Burning Tree golf club in Maryland. Jack has begun to taste the pleasures of such perks as flight in the presidential helicopter. Recently, in fact, Jack slung his 6-ft. 1-in. frame into the helicopter seat that is normally reserved for the Commander in Chief. A moment later his father boarded the craft, looked down at his son, and growled affectionately, "You're not the President yet." Jack sheepishly gave up his seat...