Word: calvins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...with fondness the laughs evoked by some of the remarks of past American Chief Executives [ESSAY, Nov. 24]. As a U.S. historian who focuses on the presidency, I found Rosenblatt's commentary downright hysterical until I got to the quote he attributed to Woodrow Wilson. In fact, it was Calvin Coolidge who said when a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. It's worth noting that Silent Cal had a sense of humor so dry that Alice Roosevelt Longworth said he looked like he'd been weaned on a pickle. DAVE ESPOSITO State College...
...British journalist with whom he had that initial liaison sold the story of their affair to the tabloid News of the World in 1991). Lockwood's lawyer said Spencer had strung together as many as 12 love affairs. He was most recently linked to the fashion editor and former Calvin Klein model Josie Borain...
...arrived in the U.S. from Hong Kong in 1972 to study design. She stayed to work for Calvin Klein and Geoffrey Beene, then launched her own clothing line in the early 1980s. By 1988, however, she abandoned clothing design to concentrate on what seemed like an impossible artistic ambition: giving metal objects the look of some of the shifting and sinuous forms she saw in underwater visions while scuba diving. Somehow she brought it off: Lam can give steel the look of draped silk...