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...ELEGANT AND ECOLOGICAL Japanese designer Unsetsu Furukawa knows eco-chic. This dress, created in rattan, a solid but flexible Asian cane that can be grown without chemicals, is typical of the couturier's use of natural materials. Furukawa's models also show off fashions woven out of fabric made from recycled plastic bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Eco-Friendly Sampler | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...debate, but if two Senators start to mix it up on the floor, then Steve Wilkos, the off-duty cop who doubles as Springer's bodyguard, would break things up. Wilkos would have been right in between Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks in 1856, when Sumner took a wicked cane beating that left him unconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sen-a-tor! Sen-a-tor! Sen-a-tor! | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...Thursday morning, before his trip to the Yankees game, he'd at last had the cast removed. On Thursday night he was still limping as he negotiated the steps at the stadium, but by Friday he was getting around the George offices with the help of nothing but a cane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...great players from my generation, Frank Robinson (who was related to Jackie only in spirit), finally became the first black manager, in 1975. Jackie was gone by then. His last public appearance was at the 1972 World Series, where he showed up with white hair, carrying a cane and going blind from diabetes. He died nine days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE ROBINSON: The Trailblazer | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...emphasize a point under discussion, E.J. Watson once shot the mustache off a man named Brewer. So testifies writer Peter Matthiessen in Killing Mister Watson, the first of three dense, fascinating novels centering on a turn-of-the-century Florida cane planter, brawler and gunman who was shot to death in 1910 by a posse of townsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Man's Tale | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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