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...ALREADY been dubbed "Substance Chic"--what politicians are sensing and pollsters are confirming is a rejuvenated concern among many Americans that their leaders demonstrate a more considered contemplation of the pressing and not-so-pressing issues of the day and possess a requisite store of personal solidity, stability and integrity. Deserving victims of the new trend, who could no longer maintain their positive image in a newly-acute public eye, range from politicians as diverse as Ronald Reagan and Gary Hart to various and sundry purveyors of salvation in the evangelical movement such as Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson and Jerry...
...said for the skittishness of Harvard's history elders about loading the department with tenured people professing current, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute subjects. Surely, above all others, history departments have vocational cause to hesitate to overstock themselves with professors on tenure providing instruction in subjects, chic and modish today, but of slender interest tomorrow, who, given the rules of tenure, alas! cannot be remaindered at half price. Historians require that the subject of a course pass the test of time, and if they do not, they should. There is something perhaps a bit off-putting...
With his bronzed good looks, silky sales pitch and dangerous smile, Leather Importer Iran (yes, that's his name) Michael Kesselman, 41, found it easy to dazzle women and men alike into doing his bidding. They put him up, made his airplane reservations, introduced him to buyers for chic West Coast boutiques and took him to celebrity-studded parties. Some of Kesselman's admirers became so enthralled, federal investigators found, that they even peddled drugs...
Radmin, who found that she could no longer buy chic clothes after gaining 80 lbs. during a pregnancy, opened her first store in Manhattan in 1977. Sales climbed swiftly to $18 million by last year, up from $12 million in 1985. Says Miriam Cyrulnik, a trial attorney who shops at the chain's store in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center: "In the old days, you had to buy a lot of big T shirts. If there was something you liked, you had to just hope it would be in your size at the end of the rack...
...local restaurant survey found that since the ban there has been a 30% drop in business. On the first night of the ban, 36 people called Romeo and Juliet to cancel their reservations. Mr. Chow, a chic Chinese eatery, registered a 17% initial decline and 65% two nights later. At the Beverly Hills Hamburger Hamlet, revenues were slashed by $3,000, while business in the chain's restaurant in nearby West Hollywood was up by the same amount. "The best restaurants are on our borders," says Joanne Le Bouvier, owner of the Saloon, which experienced a 45% setback...