Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Film Archive--Swiss Animation 1980-1987 Program #2 13 films, various directors, at 5:30 p.m. La Belle Noiseuse directed by Jacques Rivette, France...
...SWISS FOLK ART: CELEBRATING AMERICA'S ROOTS, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City. Marking the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation, 180 objects -- including carnival masks, prayer books, cake molds and embroidered towels -- demonstrate the true vitality of Switzerland's folk traditions. Through...
...collection of wizard figurines; his inner child, he says, is "fascinated by wizards." Shopping has become something of an obsession, and his tastes run to the opulent: his bedroom has purple wallpaper and a sleigh bed draped with a purple sari. He now has a second home: a Swiss-style chalet on a private 25- acre lake in Montana...
...trivial victory, but Imelda watchers were already keeping score in what Manila's press has dubbed the "war of the widows." Aquino had conceded the first point by reversing her ban on Marcos' return after a Swiss judge ruled that the former First Lady must be found guilty in a Philippine court before the government could hope to recoup an estimated $350 million in "ill-gotten wealth" from frozen Marcos accounts in Swiss banks. Aquino also agreed to allow interment of the still unburied body of the late President Marcos in his home province. But Imelda insists on a hero...
...groups. Three-year-olds and younger can learn spatial concepts -- in and out, over and around -- by crawling in a padded plastic turtle shell or sinking into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia and yellow tunnels. Youngsters up to 12 balance on a rope walk or on a webbed "bean field," a bouncy surface with punching bags that hang above it within a child's grasp. A nearby concession offers turkey dogs, pizza...