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...virtually everything. Seamstresses are hunched over exquisite embroidery. Bodice? Belt? So far the delicate pieces have no discernible shape. The designer, a robust, immaculately tailored figure who seems to be everywhere yet remains cool amid the hubbub, warns two tailors not to put so many stitches in a vibrant aqua trench coat. "Every stitch can pull," he sighs. "Silk is a very hard fabric to tailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mais Oui, OSCAR! | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...small aqua-colored newsstand is boarded up and vacant now, but its owner, Joseph R. Indelicato Jr. is determined to reopen it. Indelicato is currently petitioning the city to allow him to expand his line of products to include not only newspapers and magazines but also lottery tickets, racing forms and other items...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Newsstand Angers Local Merchant | 4/21/1992 | See Source »

...Aqua and Light Gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the League | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...There's been a lot of hype about premium quality, whether or not it's much better," said Bill laconelli, sales manager of Aqua Cool. "It hits college students pretty hard...

Author: By Helen L. Limm, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Campus Deluged With Bottled Water | 3/14/1992 | See Source »

...familiar mixture: lethal creature, relentless pursuers and vast quantities of saline solution. When waters off Bermuda become the killing grounds of a giant squid, tourism collapses. Whereupon an Ahabian fisherman, Whip Darling, clambers into a submarine and leads the hunt. All the old ingredients are present, from aqua horror ("the creature moved toward the unnatural thing") to Moby Dick denouement (" 'Here!' he shouted, and he drove the saw deep into the yawning beak"). In between are adrenal confrontations and detailed descriptions of marine life and death -- everything, in fact, but background music and special effects. Wait till next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Reading | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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