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...Harper's Bazaar and Diana Vreeland of Vogue (known to every friend and nonfriend in the trade as "Dee-ann"). Flanked by a squadron of outriders, they did not so much attend a show as occupy it. Miss White, a nonviolently well-dressed woman, with her broken wrist (the result of a slip on the ice before she left the U.S.) bound in a sling that changed daily with her outfit, got the honored spot on Coco Chanel's couch; but Mrs. Vreeland, turbaned, fiery-eyed, and putting in her first appearances as Vogue's top editor...
Yale and Penn are both potent title threats. The Elis may well stage a late season uprising. Despite the loss of blistering pace, but it is doubtful that their star forward Rick Kaminsky because of a broken wrist, the Blue held their own in Ivy competition with diminutive Dennis Lynch pacing the attack. Kaminsky is back now; last weekend he scored 28 against Penn...
...produce effects even more baffling and variegated than damage on the brain's dominant side. If, as is usually the case, it happens on the right side of the brain in a right-handed patient, his language skills are unimpaired. He can still write; he can reset his wrist watch. After a mild right-side stroke, the patient may have no paralysis, but only what neurologists call "silent impairment"-a vague depression, believed to result from a blunting of sensory awareness, and in judgment of spatial relations. He does not become overanxious. But he is likely to complain endlessly...
...entertainment; since Moslems generally do not drink, there are no bars or nightclubs. The only excitement occurs on Friday afternoons when crowds gather in the public squares to watch the flogging of convicted thieves. If the thief is a third-time offender, his right hand is amputated at the wrist...
Stern's unfamiliar, spread-out country world seems full of traps and tortures. Night after night, as he makes his way home through a neighboring cluster of houses, two huge dogs vault a fence and savagely escort him, his wrist held wetly in the lead dog's teeth. Caterpillars munch away half of every shrub and tree on the place. "This house has been standing here for thirty years with whole shrubs," Stern moans. "We're in it a month and there are halves...