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...overt sexuality. Since then, some retailers felt the clothing lacked luster. "It's never an easy thing, following a strong designer at a brand that has a strong identity," says Ann Stordahl, executive vice president of women's apparel at Neiman Marcus. "But I think Frida has worked to add a feminine aspect to the Gucci brand. She's had a lot of emphasis on color and print. We've actually been a little surprised that the customer has responded...
...Dreesen went back to Mitzi and tried to negotiate a plan for paying all the comics, not just the Main Room elite. He suggested what he thought would be a painless solution: simply add $1 to the $4.50 cover Mitzi was charging at the time, and split that extra dollar among the comedians. If a couple hundred people were in the club on a given night, that meant $200 split among the comics; it wasn't much, but it was a start, and even those few bucks could mean a lot. But Mitzi turned him down flat. "She said...
...There may be a better salesman than I am," Bill Clinton said, smiled, then paused as chuckles rippled through the audience. A better salesman? On what planet? This was classic, postpresidential Clinton, able to riff on his well-earned reputation as a mythic slinger of bullpucky. I should add that the topic in question was nuclear nonproliferation. He had the audience hanging on his every word about ... nuclear nonproliferation. The Bush Administration wanted to develop two new nuclear weapons, he said, while it was trying to persuade the Iranians to stop enriching uranium. "There may be a better salesman than...
...should add a bit more context here. The speech was given the night before the South Carolina primary. The setting was a historic spot, Penn Center on St. Helena Island, a complex of rude buildings that had served as a center for the civil rights movement, dating back to the Civil War. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white-a silent reproach to Clinton by his best-loved constituency, those unutterably decent, hardworking, middle-class, churchified African Americans. They had been shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd...
...Fallon added that Klarman—who won the Bancroft Prize, the most prestigious prize for American historical writing, for his 2005 book “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights”—will add a new perspective on the role of the Supreme Court...