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...Mexico early one morning last week, Georg Schrieber, lighting designer for the Santa Fe Opera Company, heard explosions in his sleep. "I was dreaming," he recalls, "and I remember thinking it sounded like the fireworks at the end of Hans Werner Henze's opera The Stag King. Then I realized that couldn't be right and I woke up." Five hundred feet from the ranch house where Schrieber was staying, the company's redwood theater was engulfed in lurid flames. At dawn, all that was left of one of America's hand somest outdoor music facilities...
...World War II, depends on trust and teamwork among central bankers. Perhaps more than any other institution, the B.I.S. helps knit such personal ties. In addition to the work sessions last week, there were teas, cocktail parties, receptions and dinners for delegates and their wives-and the traditional gourmet stag lunch at Basel's venerable Schützenhaus restaurant. "The B.I.S.," says Economist Robert Triffin, Yale's famed international monetary expert, "is partly a country club and partly a church-to maintain the dogma of central-bank independence from governments...
...together $10,000. He later persuaded a talented designer, Art Paul, to become his art director. Most other magazines for men concentrated on the outdoors, so he shrewdly decided to take up where Esquire had left off in catering to indoor tastes. Hefner first wanted to call his magazine Stag Party, but a sheet with a similar name protested. Then Eldon Sellers, now an executive vice president with the company, suggested Playboy...
...general, though, Playboy ads are discreet?no stag movies, no sex manuals. "Playboy takes the reader into a kind of dream world," explains Advertising Director Howard Lederer. "We create a euphoria and we want nothing to spoil it. We don't want a reader to come suddenly on an ad that says he has bad breath. We don't want him to be reminded of the fact, though it may be true, that he is going bald...
...well-realized character, but the rest of his gang runs to stereotype: Dancer is the resident intellectual because he "listen to TV news and he even read a paper clear through sometime"; Moose looks like a moose and thinks like one; and Morris, whose specialty is filming stag movies, runs periodic training drives to get fresh talent, male and female, white and black...