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...country in Central America. The left wing charges that Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge, in office just seven months, is Washington's pawn, seduced by U.S. aid ($70 million in 1982). Indeed the money is crucial just now: the country's economy is in a recessionary tail spin...
...fine-art prints. Many have been splendidly reproduced in a new volume, Erté at Ninety; The Complete Graphics (E.P. Dutton; $75). On the cover is Beauty and the Beast, a serigraph of the quintessential Erté woman, who still rules his world. Coiffed in a peacock's tail, she has wrapped her naked body in the ultimate art deco fur coat, a live black panther...
...surrounded that implacably durable Queen Bee of the art world, Louise Nevelson. Bourgeois belonged to no groups and was a complete loner; her work appeared to have a queer troglodytic quality, like something pale under a log, the vulnerable product of obsession but I with a sting in its tail...
Tania B. Friedman, another med school admissions officer said the tail end of the baby boom may also have taken its toll on the applicant pool...
...table and huge bedrolls and backpillows on our four beds, which within a few hours are blackened with coal grit. We fill the thermos hooked under the table from a water boiler down the hall. In Russia, a local car, which we are forbidden to enter, hitches onto out tail. Other than that secret compartment, we may stroll the length of the train, peeping into second-class berths (fancy slipcovers) and first (two beds, an armchair, a hose shower, and a private toilet). Even in third class, however, there is toilet paper, a genuine luxury...