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...take a wide-angle shot of the congregation at worship, lest it show 200 people clustered in a space built for nearly 1,000. And when he preaches these days, admits Marva Dennard, a Bethelite and Lyons supporter, "he's preaching to himself." One vocal critic, the Rev. Calvin Butts, head of New York City's Abyssinian Baptist Church, is incensed: "He has brought spiritual wickedness into high power." Butts and others failed to oust Lyons as convention leader last fall when the allegations began to appear, but they intend to try again in September...
...blew up, got red in the face, threw the magazine down on his desk, ranted about how we were out to destroy him, then marched around his desk and shook his fist in my face. "People remember other people for one thing," he ranted on. "They remember Calvin Coolidge for wearing an Indian headdress. They remember Arthur Godfrey for buzzing the tower at Teterboro Airport. They will remember me for posing for a clothing magazine...
...wish, Diesel, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan would have mail-order catalogs," Hariri says. "If they do, somebody call...
Discussing the need to support stability and combat "abusive child labor" (does that mean non-abusive child labor is OK?), criticizing the IRS for its abuses and talking at length about how to spend the still imaginary federal budget surplus, history-seeking Clinton seemed to echo the forgettable Calvin Coolidge's best known, ironic line, "The business of America is business." Perhaps ours is an era when economic success cannot help but be the barometer of American life...
...between 10 and 30 workers--have the distribution pull to get to Asia, and they're becoming players on the domestic scene. Positano, which is only two years old and still without a marketing staff or advertising budget, can be found in the Beverly Hills Macy's, smack between Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren. Ecko, which started selling clothes in 1995 from a two-story walkup in Manhattan's Washington Heights, had no department-store distribution when it grossed $36 million last year and was commissioned to design a 20-piece collection for The Lost World. But more than half...