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Take Dana Buchman, a Seventh Avenue-based designer who has spent 19 years supplying department stores like Bloomingdale's with career staples for women over 35. "I'm 53, and I want to be hip," says Buchman, the mother of two teenage girls, who wears tailored jeans and denim jackets to work. Now, Buchman says, her best-selling items are not beige pantsuits but trendy pieces like leopard-print calf-hair jackets...
...villainess, she is just getting started. Revealing her mission to Ronald, she tells him she plans to kill Joan - "Because you must have a thousand bitter tastes of death before you die." (The ripe dialogue is by Hollywood neophyte Sidney Buchman, whose distinguished list of credits would include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Here Comes Mr Jordan and The Talk of the Town.) She soon ascends on a geyser of madness as she decides on a new torture: "My vengeance is inspired tonight. You will first have the torture of seeing her beauty eaten slowly away by this hungry acid...
...friend who thought Houck needed to make some changes took him to a meeting at the local YMCA of the Oxford Group, an evangelical society founded in Britain by Frank Buchman that was prominent in the 1920s. Houck was immediately drawn to the group's teachings, which were based on four principles: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. He was especially moved by the concept of "two-way" prayer: the group taught that if you spent quiet time every day listening to God, he would provide guidance. You were also encouraged to make restitution, to "put right what's wrong...
...college she realized that other students possessed more raw talent. She excelled in recognizing good designs and figuring out which ones could be sold to which stores and at what price. This is not unlike her role at Claiborne, which runs 32 clothing and accessory brands--including Dana Buchman, Ellen Tracy, Kenneth Cole New York, Mexx, Monet and recent acquisition Juicy Couture--and had sales of $3.2 billion in the first three quarters of 2003. Ahrendts manages a good portion of the women's labels and all of the men's. She may lack the profile of a superstar designer...
...EXAMPLES] The Nanny's Sylvia Fine (Renee Taylor) Seinfeld's Helen Seinfeld (Liz Sheridan) Mad About You's Sylvia Buchman (Cynthia Harris...