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...engravings, prints, watercolors, drawings and photographs (from Ralph Lauren ads to Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique) opening at the New York Public Library this month. "A Rakish History of Men's Wear" surveys the factors?sumptuary laws, chivalrous codes, spiritual and marital values, dandyism and a bourgeois middle class???that helped men's style evolve from antiquity to today...
...have a first-class??college degree, lots of internships and job experience on my résumé, but at 23 I am back home with my parents, living rent free. I'm sleeping in my old bed with my favorite stuffed animal. I spend my days running errands, doing laundry and making dinner. I have become my parents' "desperate housewife." Young adults my age are overwhelmed by indecision. We have the necessary tools, but we have too many options and not enough options at the same time. We are stuck...
...account executives and wealthy tourists, in some cases with stretch-out beds like Japan Air Lines has begun to offer for a $120 surcharge on its San Francisco-Tokyo flight. There will be second class, with hot meals and some elbow room. And there will be tightly packed sardine class???cold meals, close seating, cheap fares...
Although princely pieces still command princely sums, the days when royal emissaries vied for a queen's collection of Leonardos in hushed auction rooms are gone. Today's collectors are apt to be middle-class???and many buy on the installment plan. Few of them can afford to furnish a room completely in one period, so they buy an Amish quilt or a mellowed English highboy to soften the lines of their contemporary apartments...
...suspects wanted by Bonn for Schleyer's murder fit Ferracuti's profile. Christian Klar, for example, studied history and political science at the University of Heidelberg and once belonged to the Young Democrats, the youth branch of West Germany's relatively conservative Free Democrats. His father was archetypically middle class???a high-ranking school administrator and riding club president. It was at Heidelberg that young Klar's "overdrawn sense of social justice and idealism" (as his father describes it) apparently drew him into the maelstrom of ultra-radical circles...