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...Designers like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and, later, Donna Karan and Jil Sander conjured entire fashion universes and great fortunes with ideas that revolutionized the way women dressed. Madeleine Vionnet reshaped the silhouette with her bias cut one seam coiling around the body and enhanced 1930s screen stars' sex appeal. Claire McCardell's Popover dress answered the sartorial prayers of '50s housewives all across America. And with the simple invocation to "feel like a woman, wear a dress," Diane von Furstenberg sent 300,000 women rushing to stores in the 1970s. More recently, Gela Taylor and Pam Skaist-Levy found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women in Fashion | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...brunch. And the love was, alas, sadly lacking. I struggle, for example, to think of anything less aphrodisiacal than borscht. Yet somehow it made an appearance on the menu. Beet soup may have its own Gulag-chic thing going, I guess, but it screams sex appeal about as much as a Russian shot putter in a catsuit...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vegging Out | 2/12/2004 | See Source »

...massive number of free downloads Pepsi is about to offer up. The promotion seems well poised to succeed—after all, what better way to sell soda than with useful free stuff? This seems a substantial improvement over past promotions, which have featured prizes with less broad appeal (say a sports jersey or concert tickets) and with much poorer odds. And what better way for Apple to increase the consumer comfort level with their new business model than by allowing the consumers to try it out risk-free? Apple wins because they gain an even larger head start over...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Music, Set Free | 2/11/2004 | See Source »

...Although the Bush administration has little sympathy for the populist priest who has rallied supporters with an appeal to class politics, he remains the country's democratically elected president. And the U.S. is committed to the agreement among the member states of the Organization of American States that the ballot box remains the only legitimate means of changing governments in the region. Moreover, the patterns of the current violence suggest that although he faces substantial opposition, Aristide still retains significant popular support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Should the U.S. Go In? | 2/11/2004 | See Source »

RELEASED. LIONEL TATE, 16, after serving three years in prison for the murder of a 6-year-old playmate when he was 12; in West Palm Beach, Fla. When Tate, the youngest defendant in the country to receive a life sentence, had his first-degree murder conviction overturned on appeal, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in return for a sentence of time served. He claimed he killed Tiffany Eunick accidentally while imitating wrestling moves from TV, but now says he jumped from a staircase and accidentally landed on her chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 9, 2004 | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

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