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...that were not on sale even in late 1970: portable hair dryers, electric shavers and cans of spray paint. At GUM, the famous department store on Red Square, the selection of clothing has expanded, though the prices remain high. The store even stocks such exotic merchandise as $30 wigs, spear guns, flippers and skin-diving masks. GUM's hottest item: "Charm" hair spray, selling for one ruble ($1.46), per aerosol...
When first she went to Kenya 20 years ago, Elizabeth was a princess and Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta was the underground leader of the Mau Mau, then waging a bloody war against Europeans in the British colony. It was during that visit that George VI died and Elizabeth became Queen of England. Last week she returned to Africa and met Kenyatta for the first time on Kenya soil. Now President of his country, Jomo gave the Queen his nation's highest award-the Order of the Golden Heart. Elizabeth responded by investing her host with the Knight Grand Cross...
Syndicate got half. Anderson's share all went in office costs, salaries ($22,000 to Whitten, $14,000 to Hume, $11,500 to Spear) and other expenses. Anderson's main income comes from outside activities: $21,650 last year from speechmaking, $10,000 from Parade, varying sums from writing and consulting jobs and small investments...
...alternative presents himself: the Court Liar, a wretch who earns his wine by reciting absurdities about lands so cold that water turns hard and men's skins are white. He is quick, deadly; he kills two soldiers with a spear; the princess is fascinated; he unsettles her lewdly with suggestions of non-incest; he talks of dominion over all the king doms of the valley, and has the wit, while breaking tradition, to wrap him self in new myth; he is the quick, stinging Scorpion God. She is tempted. Egypt begins...
...available, and drew them from centers like Louvain, Antwerp and Brussels. The earliest major piece in the church, a 12th century Crucifixion carved in lindenwood, has all the pathos of a spiritualized image discovering the resistances of the body: the long oval face, the crudely gouged hair, the hacked spear wound and the thin, knob-bled torso almost physically displace the pain of nailed flesh into the pain of wood attacked by a chisel...