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...also brought out all of NYU's finest--from their most honored former basketball stars to their most honored current administrators. NYU President John Brademas, the man most responsible for the return of basketball to the academically oriented school, drew more attention than an out-of-season Violet...
...came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot violet and figwort-little bottles, ancient mirrors, failing philodendrons, warmth, pleasantness and no guests...
...both could, and usually did, cause trouble. Perhaps his father's early and humiliating death from syphilis made him fear that time would run out before his own destiny could be fulfilled. "How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!" he told Violet Asquith. But if Churchill saw death as an obstacle to ambition, his follow-up remark to the Prime Minister's daughter suggested a way to meet the unavoidable. "We are all worms," he said morosely. "But I do believe that I am a glowworm...
...1930s of Private Lives) and Taylor, who enters confidently in a low-cut nightgown and robe. But, in keeping with the tone of the evening. Taylor soon changes into a Theoni Aldredge purple sequined gown that, were the actors not a hundred feet away, would undoubtedly become her violet eyes...
MOST BOOK JACKETS are meaningless eye catchers, but the designer of Madeleine L 'Engle's latest novel exhibits a starting perspicacity. Behind plain white lettering. A Severed Wasp is covered with dense tapestry like patterns of violet, lavender and deeper purples, the type of ribbed stripes that appear inside the covers of very old books. Only the volume's square boundaries give any shape to the intricate interplay of threads and colors...