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With the passing of Bowie's grand scheme for the Fellows program, the Center changed its complexion: growing academic functions have replaced earlier service ambitions. In both the Center and its semi-autonomous branch, the Development Advisory Service (DAS), there has been a proliferation of research projects and publications...
...spare rooms so dusty that they were uninhabitable. Beatrix' chief diversion lay in frequent trips to picture galleries, of which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that she can only afford to wash her face once a fortnight." Prime Minister William Gladstone was "a vain old bird ... I never saw a person so creased . . . that old goose." The Journal breaks off, with Beatrix earnestly pursuing the classification and painting...
...eyes that set her apart are a deep and striking blue. Endowed as well with lustrous black hair, flashing smile and a milkmaid's complexion, Luci is undeniably comely-more so than most of her photographs indicate. Not entirely by accident, the Secret Service code name for her is Venus; Lynda, more studious and serious, is Velvet; Lady Bird is Victoria...
...John F. Kennedy Memorial Library will sit on the banks of the Charles across the street from Eliot House. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of visitors will pour through it during its first year. It will change the map of Cambridge drastically and it may also change the complexion of academic Harvard. For half of the $20 million raised from the public for the memorial will be given to the University on the endowment for the John F. Kennedy institute of Politics...
...late Constance Bennett. After one wifely indiscretion (Ricardo Montalban), Lana is banished by Connie from haute couture country, and begins the long, long slide into ready-to-wear. In Europe, she picks up a fur-trimmed coat and a concert pianist. Her hair loses its luster, her complexion fades to the color of driftwood, and ultimately she lands in Mexico wearing a filthy flowered wrapper and carousing with Burgess Meredith, a blackmailer. After she shoots him for threatening to reveal her identity and spoil the Governor's bid for the White House, she plays her big courtroom scene, helped...