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...rise in the perception of the governor's chances is based both on the current cachet of candidates that project images of clean living, as well as Dukakis's ability to build a successful political and fundraising organization...
Spanish-language advertising has a new cachet on Madison Avenue. In recent years such prestigious firms as Young & Rubicam and JWT Group have added Hispanic divisions. And for the first time, TV and radio ads for the Hispanic market last month were given Clio awards, advertising's equivalent of the Oscars. One of this year's winners: a Pepsi spot produced by New York City- based Moir Productions that depicted a Hispanic boy, drumming on a Pepsi can, who eventually achieves his childhood dream of becoming a successful musician...
...work of young Japanese architects acquires cachet and stirs interest around the world, it is fitting that the elder statesman of Japanese design, Kenzo Tange, 73, should become the first of his countrymen to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The $100,000 award, announced last week, went to one of the most important modernists of his generation, a master builder who can point to a body of work that is large, far-flung and confident. Tange was a committed and conscientious designer in the International Style during its heyday, a modernist who resisted the easiest answers of modernism during...
...case go to trial, but the two sides could not agree on alimony and child support. Fedders insisted that they be based on his current Government salary, while his wife argued that they be scaled upward once he returned to private practice and cashed in on his cachet as a former SEC enforcement chief. That rich future is now less assured. Said one top Washington lawyer: "He may be a damned good securities lawyer, but he's going to find it tough to land a job in this town...
...designs quickly caught the fancy of wealthy matrons from Bel Air, Calif., to Bar Harbor, Me. Pulitzer's trademark pink-and-green styles became the epitome of preppiedom and led to the opening of 33 boutiques across the country. But after nearly two decades of cachet, Pulitzer has fallen out of style and into the red. Last week her company, which had sales of more than $10 million a year in its heyday, filed for bankruptcy in order to receive protection from creditors. The firm will close six of its 26 remaining shops...