Word: contact
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...women get first pick). What's left over goes to personal shoppers for their clients, so that by the time [merchandise] gets to the shop?well, the best pieces of the season don't get to the shop!" She adds, "And I won't wait. I always have a contact person in London...
...school and were tapped for an extra year to qualify them as master tailors. They say they can spot a Brioni suit at a distance because of the shape of the buttonhole, the gentle roll of the jacket collar and the light-handed topstitching. Both say they enjoy the contact with clients and have got more comfortable with the unusual requests, like the gentleman at a Paris hotel fitting who needed a special pocket. "Waist level, something heavy. He didn't say, and I didn't ask, but I assume it was a handgun," says Lovino...
...operation—also the home of Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi and his wife, Elkie—is past Mather House (yes, there is a “past Mather”) on Bank Street. The Zarchis take a very personal, “spiritual” approach to student contact. Indeed, as Wisse said in 2003, “The success of the Harvard Chabad House can be attributed entirely to the personality and energy of Hirsch Zarchi.”Two groups, both aiming to celebrate Jewish culture and provide a community center for Jews and goyim to explore...
...organizations are not nearly as strong as they would like.DRIFTING APART“We’re pretty independent of other Christian groups,” Stein says, adding that she would like to see more interaction. The HRCF board feels the same way, but to date, contact between the two organizations has been largely informal. “On an individual level, there’s lots of interaction,” says Washington, but institutionally, the two groups stand apart. Their reluctance to join forces, even on an occasional basis, is all the more mystifying considering just...
...come from a place of self-pity"; he's stubbornly determined to show that, if he gives off a positive vibe, he won't encounter racism. Carmen is the well-meaning daughter of parents who were active in the civil rights movement, but she has had little personal contact with blacks. She refers to one of her daughter's black friends as a "magnificent black creature," and, in a role-play led by the dialogue coach, addresses Renee, "Yo, bitch." ("Bitch," she tells TIME, was on a list of slang terms the coach had given her, and she thought...