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...compounded of princes and paupers, of weighty talk and lighthearted banter, of solemn ceremony and hilarious, sometimes embarrassing slipups. The down-to-earth couple from Plains greeted the New Year by joining the royal couple of Iran in the fairyland setting of the Shah's palace, amid a whirl of dancing, conviviality and caviar. Then last week it was back to the burdens of reality in the White House, where accumulating problems are closing in on the President. During the campaign, Carter said that he wanted to be tested to the utmost. In 1978 he will get his wish...
...does get around. For ten days, it was an endless whirl of parties in Ireland. Back in the U.S., Miss Lillian barely had time to unpack before she was out on the town in Manhattan. At a lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much...
...pick out people frolicking in front of Matthews, and the sound of stereos blaring out of windows rattles the sills far into the night. Saturday night was that kind of evening, but it was special because it was the first big night of Freshman Week, that unavoidable whirl of partying, anticipation and one-upsmanship that is somehow an appropriate introduction to the strange little world that is Harvard...
Making me sing and whirl...
Gaslight Phenomena, the exhibit of kinetic light sculpture by Alejandro Sina at the Institute of Contemporary Art until May 1, is just that kind of art. It is fun to be hypnotized by the pieces that whirl in intricate patterns, to touch the "Touch Bulbs" and to gaze at the gently swaying hanging pices...