Word: belt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smart and glib and redolent of the kind of backchat--over the top or below the belt--that fuels the fashion biz. "It's so major!" gushes Polly Mellen, creative director of Allure. The result could be trivial if director Douglas Keeve were not also focusing on Mizrahi's gathering nerves. The low point comes when a staffer brings in a copy of Women's Wear Daily that headlines the latest from Jean-Paul Gaultier, the tallest tree in Mizrahi's particular sector of the fashion forest. Gaultier's revelation? Eskimo chic. Mizrahi throws the paper on the floor...
...Drummond reports. Haitian folk singer Mano Charlemagne, the putative winner, performs songs urging his fellow countrymen to kill all former Tontons Macoutes and dump their corpses on the doorstep of the U.S. special forces. At a recent campaign rally, he suddenly whipped out a .45-caliber pistol from his belt when a disturbance broke out. "His political symbol was a guitar," Drummond says. "He apparently has no platform and no plans for improving the miserable living conditions in the capital city of 1.5 million people. "The first thing he plans to do once elected? Give free concerts for the people...
...m.p.h. speed limits for passenger cars but decided to retain the limits for heavy trucks and buses. Senators agreed to leave motorcycle-helmet rules up to the states but insisted that "zero-tolerance" alcohol policies be adopted by all states for drivers under 21 and that federal seat-belt rules be retained. The bill now goes to the House...
...Tennessee. A jury in Memphis wasted little time ruling that the images--which included pictures of women having sex with animals--were obscene. But his case raised the tricky constitutional question of which locale's community standards should have been used to make that judgment: Tennessee's Bible Belt, California's Bay Area or the virtual community of cyberspace...
...whose shows they are meant to be covering as journalists, earning up to $3,000 for a day's work. What lands in Vogue or Harper's Bazaar or Elle or any of the half a dozen key magazines, may be the finest clothing, the hippest new bag or belt or jacket; it may also be the goods peddled by the editor's friend or most important advertiser or sometime employer. "Something has shifted," says Holly Brubach, style editor of the New York Times Magazine. "Instead of the friendships being kept separate from work, these friendships have been brought into...