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...hours. Few people batted a mascaraed or folded eyelid last month when the China Silk Fashion Color Association announced its forecast in seasoned Parisian tones: "Sprightly beach colors and bronzes of primitive simplicity will be popular in China this spring and summer, with cheerful pastels taking over in the autumn and winter...
After a fine frenzy of activity that began in mid-March with designers' fashion shows in Milan and ended 14 days later in Paris, the order books for autumn were finally closed barely two weeks ago. The big boys and the boutiques shoved their way into the same shows and held down desk space in the same sales offices, as they all dropped a bundle and bought the line. Then they all went home to endure the inevitable surprises when the shipments arrive several months later. "There's not a buyer alive," says Neiman-Marcus Senior Vice President...
...night opened with a piece called "Isba" with music by George Winston ("Autumn") and choreography by Alvin Ailey. It seemed to be just a joyous celebration of colors, of people and of love. The set was a brilliant backdrop of pink, blue and green complemented by the dancers hot, brightly colored costumes. The dancers alternated from groups to solos to partners and as they proceeded through different movements they just seem to be having a better and better time. They turned, displaying their perfect techniques with their arms up, down always creating more tension. The dance itself was mainly modern...
...adult life?and, with a few other tricks, he has mastered the techniques of fusing his life with what is thought to be his image. This results in some arresting and deeply intriguing paradoxes: the thin young man, with bones as fragile as the veins in an autumn leaf, suddenly igniting on the downbeat and burning his way through to the hot, angry heart of Billie Jean; the boy who has an uncanny sense of what his audience wants and how to go about the hard and profitable business of giving it to them; the gentle, slightly self-mocking teen...
...seven siblings, their spouses and their 33 children, has made its fortune on a family-owned gold mine in an unnamed South American country. Each summer they retreat from the capital city to their country home, built near their gold mine and surrounded by profile fields of thistle. Each autumn, the thistles seed, the air gets too thick to breathe, and the Ventura family returns to the city...