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...years in the white-hot limelight, Diana's perfect p.r. pitch has become her best weapon. From the melancholy kohl-rimmed eyes to the hesitant body language, from the lack of spite (she'll take "half" the responsibility for the split) to the deference to the Prince ("I await my husband's decision" about a divorce), Diana played her part with great cunning, showing that when she says she won't go easily, she means...
...fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this fall was a waiting list 100 chic names long for the new, $325 velvet hip-huggers. At Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan, 256 women await a reshipment of $295 high-heel pumps. The fever has hit Wall Street. Last week Gucci was the red-hot initial public offering. At $22 a share, the once unhip, money-losing 72-year-old Florentine company was worth $1.3 billion...
...process He has demonstrated both the desire and the ability to play this central role and it is for this important and humanity tarian function that he is deserving of support. For this Yasser Arafat of today and the peace process towards which his efforts are directed, I eagerly await to applaud...
...last few pages of Andrew Greeley's 1981 best seller, The Cardinal Sins, there is a scene in which a crowd of reporters has gathered in St. Peter's Square in Rome to await the wisp of white smoke that will signal the election of a new Pope. One of those journalists, Greeley writes, is Jordan Bonfante, TIME's Rome bureau chief, who vanishes "to dash off his story" the moment the smoke appears...
...details of her life, hopes and dreams--makes her life emerge with a wonderful fullness. The problem with the memoir, and with Cantwell's own life, is her marriage. It is described from a postdivorce viewpoint and is thus colored throughout as a negative relationship. From the start we await its collapse and wondering at Cantwell's constancy. And unfortunately Cantwell is unable to carry her memoir much beyond her ruined marriage. She succumbs to the plague of so many women's autobiographies, not exploring the importance of her own life once the man has left the scene...