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Slumping consumer confidence and declining retail sales have already taken a job toll. At Southern University, a traditionally black school in Baton Rouge, La., retailers J.C. Penney and Mervyn's have cut their interviews by two-thirds. "The options for students are becoming more limited," says Kris Tiefenthaler, the director for college relations at Sears Roebuck. But retailers have high churn rates, so Sears--which recently announced store closings and layoffs--is sticking to plans to hire 200 new grads this year...
...like a gawky tourist who has wandered into a swank supper club by mistake. One of those new-style music spectacles (think "Stomp!"), "Blast" features a horde of fresh faced kids in their 20s performing an array of choreographed band numbers. It?s a mix of marching-band music, baton twirling, ballet, Ed Sullivan novelty act, Blue Man Group-style performance art and a few other things that escape me at the moment. The individual elements are familiar, but the amalgam is something totally original. The drum soloists are dazzling; the unicycling trombone player a hoot...
Instead, this year young Belgian designers like Olivier Theyskens and Veronique Branquinho ran with the avant-garde baton and were the must-sees. Designer Walter Van Bierendonck, a professor at the Flanders Fashion Institute and one of the Antwerp Six, the original Belgian designers to gain fame with their initial London showing in 1986, says: "Of course, the Japanese had a huge influence...
...convey its desired message vividly and succinctly to the widest possible audience. During the early days of the most recent wave of Palestinian violence, for example, newspapers across the world, including The New York Times and the Boston Globe, published a photograph of a bloodied man crouching before a baton-wielding Israeli policeman, beneath which the following caption appeared: "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount." In fact, it was later revealed that the "Palestinian" was actually an American Jewish student, Tuvia Grossman, who had been visiting the Old City with friends when their cab was stopped...
BILL CONTI Accepting her Oscar, Julia tries to silence "Stick Man," dissing conductor and his baton...