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Fashionable as it was among Europe's silk-hosed aristocrats, fencing never really caught on in the leather-stockinged American colonies. "When the settlers came to America," explains Ed Lucia, a top U.S. fencing coach, "they came with an ax, not with a sword." Even today many Americans consider the sport effete-incorrectly, for swordsmanship throughout history has been equated with valor, stamina, agility. Fencing is still dominated by the swordsmen of Europe. Frenchmen have won individual foils in seven of the last 13 Olympic competitions. Italian Olympians have won the last six individual épée gold...
...local characters. At Swarthmore he shows a translucent, almost Flemish portrait of Lester, which suggests that everyman's mind, like the dumbest, claws at his own furthest limits of knowing the world. Another portrait is Shorty, which sets a stubble-faced recluse incongruously in a sleek green silk wingback chair. (Soon after the portrait was finished, Shorty burned to death in his shack.) An eerie vision of a Mushroom Picker in the subterranean farms of Pennsylvania casts the tiny fungus caps in an almost surreal drama of light and shadow...
...helicopter into Hoa Hao, a thatch-roofed village near the Cambodian border and seat of the important Buddhist sect which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior, McNamara placed both hands before his chest in the Bud dhist attitude of prayer and bowed. Afterward, the visitors stood beaming as Khanh presented a U.S.-made hearing aid to the founder's mother, a partly deaf octogenarian who still lives on the place; the old woman...
...Cover) With the exaggerated gestures of a man who feels the eyes of scrutiny, the short, fox-faced witness removed his serious blue fedora, took off the velvet-collared overcoat with the laven der silk lining, and with well-manicured hands smoothed back a wisp of brown hair. His bright eyes stole briefly across the gathered crowd and looked away again. Then, clutching a black attache case imprinted with his silver initials, Robert Gene Baker, 36, the whizbang from Pickens, S.C., hurried into a hearing room in the old Senate Office Building...
...that his turn has come, Monk cuts a fine figure on the scene. Nellie spends a hysterical hour every evening getting him into his ensemble, and when he steps out the door he looks faintly like an Oriental garden?subtle colors echoing back and forth, prim suits and silk shirts glimmering discreetly. He spends hours standing around with his band, talking in his unpenetrable, oracular mode. "All ways know, always night, all ways know?and dig the way I say 'all ways,' " he says, smiling mysteriously. When he is playing anywhere near New York, the baroness comes to drive...