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Business at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the highest-priced theater in Manhattan, is booming like a basso profundo. Since opening its new house in September, the Met has been 100% sold out and has turned away thousands of ticket seekers, who are 100% furious. But the smell of success is not sweet. Last week, pleading "a gross miscalculation" in budgeting, the Met announced that it must hike ticket prices by roughly 20%, or an increase from $13 to $15.50 for the top-priced seats. The reason, explained the Met's board of directors, is that, like dreamy-eyed...
...characteristic of both the government's Vietnam policy and the Institute's evasion of its responsibility to the public. In spite of this, and of McNamara's "tougher-than-thou" attitude, he suffered nothing worse than considerable, and deserved, embarrassment. Meanwhile rowdy students managed to create the sound and smell of a mob by physical attacks on outlying protestors, including women. This happened after McNamara had agreed to answer two questions...
...Paraffin. Elizabeth was a dynamic perfectionist. She could spend months sniffing half a dozen sachets a day in order to find "the most wonderful smell in the world," and insisted on having the bows on packages retied again and again until they reached the exact, proper tilt. Since very few mortals were capable of her degree of dedication, the turnover among Arden employees was a byword in Manhattan career circles; but her exacting policies made great sense to her customers. Inside her salons (now numbering 50 in 33 countries), she similarly tried to perfect the Total Woman-physically, mentally...
...sophomores, Steve Bittner and Frank Shorter, are the main reasons for Yale's success. Bittner is another speed-ster (4:12 mile) who will give you trouble in the home stretch if he can smell...
...butterfly's sense of smell...