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...tout Southern California had been sprucing up for weeks. Sunday morning the royals went to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Diego. "We've completely redone the courtyard," said the Rev. James Carroll, "even though they'll just see it for a moment." Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions. At Neiman-Marcus, there was a run on $150 over-the-elbow white kid gloves...
...soon as the machines arrived, Favag resold them to another company, Eler Engineering, based in Geneva. Says Marc Villoz, a Favag director: "We pocketed a commission, and Eler got the machines. It's a normal commercial transaction, and we don't know or care where those machines are right...
...when I was seven, along with the knee-slapper about what has four wheels and flies? Even then, the joke seemed pretty lame, but an appealing new response has appeared in the form of the album Red All Over by the group Busload of Nuns, featuring the performances of Marc Lowenstein '85 and Andrea Burke '85. The record's somber album jacket is, you guessed it, black and white, but the slyly absurd title is just a harbinger of the album's unexpected jabs at presence and pretension. Red All Over, like a musical rendition of a common old joke...
...often the big American hits like E.T., which sold 690,000 tickets in the first two weeks of its Paris run. The French are probably the most cosmopolitan fans in the world. "We will go see a Portuguese film one week and a Turkish one the next," says Marc Silvera, an official of the Centre National de la Cinématographic. "We are more open to films in other languages than the Americans or the British, and are willing to tolerate subtitles and dubbings. That makes the choice here much more diverse. There is something for everyone...
...cellists, horn players and harpists, men and women climb in and out of tubs and showers, underwear and outerwear, cabs and buses, on their way to the place where, at the finale, they make the most beautiful music this side of Carnegie Hall. Under the baton of Illustrator Marc Simont, every player is treated as an individual and set wittily on the pages like notes on a staff of Mozartean melody...