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...ball gowns and bikinis. His six-ounce, pure-silk stretchable separates (skirts, slacks and overblouses, each $49.95) and dresses (V-necked and cap-sleeved or round-necked and long-sleeved, loosely belted sheaths, all $99.50) must be dry-cleaned, but patterns and colors are so varied that almost any stain turns chameleon and is lost. Brilliant pinks, yellows and deep-water greens clash but somehow blend in Pucci's jungle fabrics, often looking like the wild middle ground between Henri Rousseau and Jackson Pollock...
TASTIER WATER would flow from U.S. taps under new rules being shaped by a Public Health Service committee. Lower limits will be set on chemicals that give some water bad taste, sometimes stain laundry...
...club," he no longer was in any mood to pull his punches. South Africa's racist apartheid policy, he told the House of Commons, was a "tragically misguided and perverse philosophy . . . abhorrent to the ideals towards which mankind is struggling in this century." Because of this stain on South Africa's honor, said Macmillan, the South African flag should "now be flown at half-mast...
...through these tales (notably Michael Kohlhaas, The Earthquake in Chile) is not odd in a man writing during the Napoleonic years. What is strange to find in a writer who is claimed by moderns is the crass hand of coincidence in the place of credible invention, the tears that stain letters, the use of brutalized detail in place of character-building...
...Hole, is many things. The characters see in it trinitarian aquaria, golf-players, junction boxes; and one, The Visionary, sees people waiting for "the solemn unveiling of the great window in the south transept whose quote or rather misquote many-coloured glass will God willing in all probability stain the white radiance of eternity unquote to the everlasting glory of God." (I haven't the foggiest idea whether or not the play is a Christian play, but I am certain that upholders of both points of view will be found after every performance.) The hole is the mind...