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...Vera Keller '02, who is working in Cambridge over the summer, said that she has not received any forwarded mail since the end of the spring semester...
DIED. LUCIEN LAURIN, 88, Hall of Fame trainer who saddled 36 stakes winners, including Secretariat, who won the 1973 Belmont by an unprecedented 31 lengths to win the Triple Crown; in Miami. DIED. VERA ATKINS, 92, British spymaster who inspired the James Bond character Miss Moneypenney; in Hastings, England. Born in Romania, Atkins recruited and trained nearly 500 secret agents to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, concocting elaborate identities for the spies. After the war, she tracked down the fates of 117 missing agents and brought their murderers to war-crimes trials...
Like Arbus, Mark also enjoys the ways in which people construct fantasies of themselves, like the old girl in a ballroom gown who has been happily swept off her feet by a dance partner in Jerry Hill and Margaret Sell. In another shot, Vera Antinoro, Rhoda Camporato and Murray Goldman, two aging glamour girls strut their stuff, what there is of it. They may seem at first to be clueless about themselves, until you realize that they are onto something about all of us, something that has to do with the need to persevere in roles that give us pleasure...
...Bernard Tschumi, to build the houses of tomorrow, one suburban, the other urban. In "What Will Our Skyline Look Like?" Richard Lacayo argues that the steel-and-glass Modernist box is about to be sliced, diced and shredded. Five designers--Giorgio Armani, John Bartlett, Randolph Duke, Tommy Hilfiger and Vera Wang--created a closetful of clothes, with Wang's wedding dress, I guess, a good indication that at least she thinks the institution of marriage will survive...
...Vera Kutzinski, a professor of American studies and of English at Yale, said she and other faculty members will try to pressure Carby to reconsider her decision to leave...