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...Friday-night ritual in Westwood Village, an enclave of movie theaters and trendy shops neighboring the sprawling campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Teen-agers and college students hang about the bars and ice-cream parlors to gawk and hobnob, while lines of moviegoers curl around the corners...
...matter of course. Benjamin Beale, a former anthropology student and an executive for Champion International, "never thought of not coming back." "Harvard has got the capabilities and knack for making you live in another world for three days with no cares and only enjoyment to experience," the Westwood, Mass. resident said...
...surrounded by reporters and camera crews seeking to record the families' grief. When word came over the wires that Private First Class Michael Devlin of Westwood, Mass., was the first confirmed casualty from that state, reporters besieged his mother. Recalls Christine Devlin: "They are on top of you before you have a chance to get the family together. Why should people have to know how you look or feel under those circumstances?" At Camp Lejeune, N.C., a TV crew reportedly paid children to go door to door in areas closed to the press to find out which families were...
...favorites: Yamamoto, Armani, Ferré, Miyake. One also has one's diversions (Lagerfeld, Montana), one's objects of respectful admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion...
...home games are where the over nightesrs shine, scenes of in evolving ritual that dates back into the years of Coach John Wooden, the Wizard of Westwood. Through chants of "Who's he?" "Big deal" "So what" "Who cares?" and "Go home" after the introduction of the visitors' line-up, shouts of "Play ball" at the end of the national anthem, and the flawless execution of a repertoire of game-time cheers and jeers, the faithful add to their enjoyment of the best games while over the likes of San Joe State...