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...which I have finally learned always sounds a lot better than it turns out. Besides, I'm not photogenic (see last week's issue, page 8). That's why TIME uses a drawing in the middle of this column instead of a picture. You cannot imagine how hideous Calvin Trillin...
...Other factors include racial and economic disparities in sentencing. In Texas, for instance, two-thirds of those sentenced to die are black or Hispanic, though they make up only one-third of the state population. Then there's bad lawyering: this week attorneys for a Texas death-row inmate, Calvin Burdine, will argue in federal appeals court that he was deprived of due process when his first lawyer slept through much of his trial...
...Wasn't that brilliant! We found that dress - I think it was by Calvin Klein, a fantastic crizia piece. A model had worn it on the catwalk in Milan and it looked great, but with fake nails and blonde hair, it looked awwwfull. It looked like someone, you know, had had a word with her about all of her clothes. And I liked the way her hair changes. You know you get what you pay for with hair and at the beginning, it looks so overworked and overprocessed - it's been permed, bleached, it's like a carpet. I imagined...
Surrounded by hundreds of decanters of Dior's latest fragrance, J'adore, Bernard Arnault, 50, swivels in an ergonomic chair at the head of a metallic gray conference table on the 16th floor of midtown Manhattan's new LVMH tower. Forget Calvin, Ralph and even Giorgio or Miuccia--this narrow-faced, thin-lipped, dimpled Frenchman is the most powerful person in fashion today...
American firms like Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan and Calvin Klein are finding it increasingly difficult to compete against these global luxury superpowers. Tommy Hilfiger's stock has also lost luster (see box). So has Kiehl's, a 149-year-old posh beauty brand that was acquired last week by French global giant L'Oreal. In February, Klein, noting the sums Arnault has been paying and the increasingly treacherous fashion market, also put his company up for sale. Potential suitors--LVMH and Gucci among them--have shied away from Klein's privately held company because its licensing agreements would deny...