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Says Dr. Kistler: "He watches so that there is no injury to her." In addition to pictures of Mr. B and Peter Martins, her living room shows off her precious collection of unicorns, the legendary beast that is associated with purity. But lately Darci has a new interest; she now likes images of swans...
...Joseph Henry, professor of Oral Surgery, stressed the need for affirmative action in hiring for faculty positions, adding that "there are precious few opportunities at the fellowship level. "The Med School comes up with 20 percent minority student enrollment--we need to have the same kind of commitment at the faculty level," Henry said...
...showers, dresses and drinks a pint of orange juice. At 4:30 an ABC limousine picks him up for the 30-minute ride from his home in suburban Westchester County to the Good Morning America studio on Manhattan's West 66th Street. Since seconds are precious at that dark hour, Hartman uses the 30 minutes to munch an apple and a banana and read-or "zap through," as he says-the New York Times and Daily News. (Joan Lunden uses the commuting time, also from Westchester, to nurse her three-month-old baby, whom ABC provides with a nurse...
There are many aspects of Cornell's imagery which seem fey, precious or backward-looking: the Christmas frosting, bats and moss and dingly dells. There is a treacherous line between sentiment and sentimentality, particularly in his evocations of his own childhood. Yet time and again, even his most gothic fantasies and his most fussily reverential evocations of dead ballerinas are plucked back from the edge by Cornell's rigor as a formal artist. The essence of the box is to contain, and within a rectangular grid, at that. Cornell enhanced this with a spare, strict sense of proportion...
Durgin has keyed an offensive line that has shunted aside defensive linemen with methodical regularity, despite the handicap of playing under five quarterbacks at one ime or another. Restic has also entrusted his line to protect those signal-callers, the precious cogs in his treasured Multiflex...