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According to Murray, when he arrived at the shop that afternoon, he "discovered the crepe burners and various corporate inventory had been taken by Redha with no authorization...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Creperie's Reopening Delayed by Dispute | 5/21/1999 | See Source »

...know so much in this first chapter--and not because of the prerelease hype. We know that plucky Anakin will grow up to be Darth Vader, so the crepe of Fate hangs over his ascendancy. We are meant to root for the boy when he finds himself in a plane cockpit during the climactic battle (he could be a kid sneaking a drive in his dad's Lamborghini), yet we know that the budding hero will later be a super-villain, as if Aladdin were to grow up to be Jafar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Phantom Movie | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...Appropriate venues for pre-dance dinner include Annenberg, Bertucci's, that new crepe place and the Border Cafe, where you will encounter muchos otros of your ilk. Neither Cafe Sushi nor Adams House is calling your names. Tonight is not the night to expand those horizons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Foible? | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...other hand, has never been one particular place. Rather, Peterman retails an evoked time, a diffuse, multifaceted past located somewhere between the two World Wars, sometimes drifting back into the Edwardian. A thought along these lines appears in the text presenting an Indian Elephant Caftan (No. AAF7744. Silk crepe de Chine. $180. Bangalore, India): "Comeliness and the passions of the past happen to mean a lot to me, perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times At J. Peterman | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Duchesses of Westminster. There is only one Chanel." In fact, there were many Coco Chanels, just as her work had many phases and many styles, including Gypsy skirts, over-the-top fake jewelry and glittering evening wear--made of crystal and jet beads laid over black and white georgette crepe--not just the plainer jersey suits and "little black dresses" that made her famous. But probably the single element that most ensured Chanel's being remembered, even when it would have been easier to write her off, is not a piece of clothing but a form of liquid gold--Chanel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Designer COCO CHANEL | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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