Word: chic
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...last week said he believed Bonds took steroids. "When I played, I worked out with weights, I ate right, and I could never gain 25 lbs. in the off-season. I just couldn't do it." Of course, with steroidophobia in the air, bulking up is suddenly not so chic. Giambi, who claims he lost only 4 lbs. over the winter, looks as if he's shrunk a few shirt, shorts and shoe sizes. "Spring training used to be an annual game of who got bigger," says Josh Suchon, an Oakland Tribune sportswriter who wrote a book on Bonds. "This...
What happens when a chic industrial designer teams up with a leading maker of personal weather gauges? Consumers get a cool gizmo that not only looks sleek but works great too. The new Starck with Oregon Scientific weather clocks range in price from $75 to $300, and they're designed by Philippe Starck. The top model has a wide range of features, including projecting the time onto your ceiling and reporting the phase of the moon. The clock can also tell you the barometric pressure, humidity, predicted weather for the next 12 to 18 hours and the temperature and humidity...
DIED. STEPHEN SPROUSE, 50, fashion designer and artist; of heart failure; in New York City. Sprouse, who began sketching for clothier Bill Blass at age 14 and designed clothes for Debbie Harry, front woman of the rock group Blondie, made the off-kilter downtown punk aesthetic accessible to chic uptown sophisticates. He also created the high-profile line of "graffiti" handbags for Louis Vuitton...
...Mountain Goats emerge onstage, clad in jeans and button-down shirts, worlds away from the NYC rock-chic that is keeping a hold on the current indie audience. Bassist Peter Hughes seems to understand that this is Darnielle’s gig: his bass complements Darnielle’s ferocious guitar strumming without ever overpowering...
...electric motor to deliver 60 m.p.g. on city roads, represents the realization of that objective. Since its debut last year, the car has been the toast of the automotive world. Despite its pedestrian list price of about $20,000, the snub-nosed hatchback is a badge of celebrity chic: Cameron Diaz and Harrison Ford took Priuses to last year's Oscars...