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...spruced-up interiors. She maintained arrangements with her favorite couturiers to give her gowns to wear, which were then given to two Manhattan fashion-design schools. She had--and still has--three hairdressers buzzing in and out. (Nancy Reagan is a "warm honey-blond with highlights," says Monsieur Marc, her New York stylist, who provides some of the highlights.) In all, Washington was overtaken by an extravagant new Tory chic...
...noonday ghosts of the '30s. He was certainly one of the great fabulists of modern art. But unlike the surrealists, he was not content with the effort to tap into a collective unconscious through the littered cellar of the individual self. And unlike lesser but more popular artists like Marc Chagall, he did not permit himself a moment's slump into nostalgia. Always on the move, the exile with one packed bag under the bed, gazing at a future that was bound to be worse than the past, he retained an uncanny ability to go through his fears and find...
Where most teams speak of "returning lettermen," B.Y.U. keeps statistics on "returning missionaries." The current center, Trevor Matich, has hiked to all of the big four quarterbacks: Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon, Steve Young and Bosco, the national leader in total offense. Matich has managed this by breaking up his playing career with a year and a half of Mormon preaching in Mexico. "When you see kids in adobe houses twelve to a room," he says, "you don't care so much about...
...medical ethics and social implications of organ transplants. The task force has completed its study, addressing the problem of how to allocate organ transplants in the face of too few donor organs and too little money. Aside from this immediate concern, one of its major goals is, according to Marc S. Roberts, professor of political economy at the Harvard School of Public Health, and member of the committee, to "set a precedent" for the way the state should handle science ethics problems. Yet even this seemingly straightforward goal is itself controversial...
...Harvard and other prominent schools are to continue to lead the way in health care, they must cut their own expensive heart and liver transplant programs. Professor of Political Economy Marc S. Roberts recently estimated that heart transplants in Harvard-affiliated Boston hospitals will cost as much as $200,000 apiece while liver transplants may run upwards of $300,000. Certainly the venerable doctors at Harvard could put such enormous sums to better use, and set an example for the rest of the country...