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Acting as if he did not have a care in the world, Ronald Reagan might have been just another wealthy, leisured Californian doing his routine chores last week. He visited his tailor, barber and butcher, where he picked up two shopping bags of veal and beef from his private meat locker in the town of Thousand Oaks. To some 50 people who turned out to greet him, he remarked: "You mean to tell me a farmer doing his work is of this much interest...
...stands to reason that the more we get to know President-elect Ronald Reagan, the more likely we are to call him by any other name. But which one? Mr. Reagan calls Mrs. Reagan "Mommie," and she him "Ronnie." According to the New York Times, Mr. Reagan's tailor, Frank Mariani, also calls him Ronnie ("Ronnie is rather conservative"). Should we too call him Ronnie? Or should we call...
Students who wanted to study literature in the past have had a circumscribed set of choices: the Comparative Literature department offered them no undergraduate concentration, so they could squeeze into the English Department's honors option II--with all of that department's labyrinthine requirements--or try to tailor their own program in some other language-oriented department or interdisciplinary committee...
...gave them a deserted, haunting quality, as though some German De Chirico had been set loose in the Ruhr. De Chirico was the main prototype for the fantastic images of this wing of the German avantgarde; there was, for instance, a ready connection to be made between the tailor's dummies he had painted and the cripples depicted by Grosz or Dix, prosthetic men displaying the body re-formed by politics. Grossberg combined suggestions of both in The Diver, 1931, an exceedingly odd image of an empty diving suit, virginally white, standing pathetically within the rushing perspective...
...nature and culture-particularly in the similarity between Gainsborough's handling of the wife's gauzes and of the foliage of the background trees -suggest an unforced series of transitions from the human to the vegetable realms: nature is as much the Halletts' accomplice as their tailor, dressmaker or gardener...