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...setting is sublime," says Yvonne Deslandres, 63, who spent the past 25 years collecting some 9,000 costumes that form the core of the museum's permanent collection. It is also highly symbolic: the windows, worked neatly into the exhibition space by Kahane, overlook a splendid Parisian landscape where fashion still thrives as it does no place else in the world. Just a short distance away are the couture houses of Saint Laurent, Madame Gres, Givenchy and Dior, which began their spring/summer showings even as Mitterrand was presiding over the museum's official opening. In March, the courtyard...
...friend T.E. Lawrence that was frankly designed to sell. It did. His own autobiography, Goodbye to All That (1929), was more than a parting shot at an England he could no longer abide. Graves intended the book to stir outrage and sales, and he succeeded. Settled in splendid self-exile on the Spanish island of Majorca, he countered mounting debts by writing the historical novel I, Claudius...
Should the probe weather its many assaults, the rewards will be splendid. During its four-hour encounter, Giotto will explore the material streaming from the nearby nucleus with a total of ten experiments. As the craft revolves on its axis, a solid-state optical camera extending from the bottom rim like a bent stovepipe will snap a photograph once every four seconds. The pictures will be instantly transmitted to earth and shown live on television. Mass spectrometers will analyze the composition of the dust from the nucleus, and other instruments will examine the properties of the ions in detail...
Harvard, coming off a disappointing 2-1 loss to Princeton Saturday, put on a splendid offensive show against its highly touted opponent, reeling off 19 shots and 12 penalty corners...
Excitement grew. Last Wednesday I hailed a cab and set off for the Bureau of the Public Debt, division of public debt accounting. I passed the Washington Monument, tall and splendid in the morning light, but only one six-hundredth as tall as Reagan's stack of $1,000 bills. Pressed on around the Department of Agriculture. What pikers! They have only 240 million bushels of surplus corn stored away. A nod down Independence Avenue to NASA. It would take one of their space shuttles nearly a year and a half in orbit reeling out end-to-end dollar bills...