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CHRISTIAN DIOR The hold-your-breath waists and long, flared skirts launched by Dior in Paris in 1947 came to be known as the New Look. De rigueur in the '50s, the style wound up as an Enduring Look...
...results are too late for press time, but in case you're wondering, we are holding our breath...
...comes the bad news. Some $10 trillion (yes, $10,000,000,000,000) in derivative contracts are set to mature this year for U.S. bankers, and the U.S. bankers are holding their collective breath to see which of their Asian clients will pay up. Many won't. "Those who believe there won't be any further derivative losses from Asia couldn't be more mistaken," says Edward Furash, a bank consultant based in Washington...
...appropriate for a creature whose Japanese name, Gojira, is an amalgam of kujira (whale) and gorira (gorilla)--the fin-de-siecle Godzilla has a crocodilian brow, iguana affectations, a T. Rex crouch and a noble if dragonish chin instead of an avuncular Adam's apple. As for the radioactive breath, well, it was hard for Tatopoulos to justify, so don't expect it. No lizard does that in nature, he argues. "We were creating an animal. We weren't creating a monster...
...been 40 more years. In writing the cover, Gorman says she tried "to step back, take a deep breath and be really clear about what has and hasn't happened." Both aspects are amazing...