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...show business and in chic society, dinner guests were offered crisp white lines of cocaine along with their demitasse. Cute silver spoons began to adorn the jewelry of hip, rich women. Coke became a workplace pick-me-up, like coffee, only perkier. Says Dr. Wesley Westman, chief of the alcohol- and drug- dependency center at the Veterans Administration hospital in Miami: "Cocaine is the drug of choice by people who are into the American dream -- I love my job, I am successful, except that they don't and they...
Neither Meese nor the K-School, it appears, is willing to forego the opportunity to adorn themselves with status names and medals. For while Meese recently announced that he had important cabinet business keeping him from making his scheduled appearance tomorrow, he did not say that he would decline the award. His reception has merely been pushed to May 20 on a flimsy excuse; Meese will be in town this weekend. The postponement is surely an effort to let the controversy die down, and the rescheduling seems supiciously timed to coincide with exams and thus cut down on the number...
BABY ON BOARD or CHILD ON BOARD, proclaim the yellow, diamond-shaped placards that adorn the rear windows of more and more cars across the U.S. Is this a parody of overprotective parenting? Not according to the thousands of folks who have been buying the signs for $2 to $3 each and consider them useful protection for their children. Made primarily by Safety First Inc. of Chestnut Hill, Mass., the signs are selling especially fast in traffic-choked metropolitan areas from San Francisco to Boston. But many drivers find the baby on board message annoying, and entrepreneurs with a sarcastic...
...think so. They, more than anyone, should be able to appreciate one another in a professional way. But the wise mother knows that only children do not necessarily get along with other only children. Sociopaths have trouble socializing. Could they play together? Would they interact? What statues would adorn the hotel lobby? Who would laugh at whose jokes? Who would be primus inter pares among these sullen husks...
Whether its trademark G's adorn loafers or luggage, suits or silk scarves, the Gucci name has long stood for quiet elegance at a price. Yet the heirs of Saddlemaker Guccio Gucci have proved to be noisy and unrestrained in their battles for control of the burgeoning family empire. In recent years, the best-known Gucci suits have been filed in courtrooms from Florence to Manhattan...