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...more. Last week Coach, a maker of luxury leather bags, shoes and accessories, joined Tod's, Moschino and Burberry in catering to upscale kids. Among Coach's mini-me offerings: a zip pack suitable for bringing a Game Boy surreptitiously to school ($98) and a C-print crusher hat ($68) that looks just like Mom's. Why cater to kids? David Lockwood, a manager at Mintel, a Chicago-based consumer-market researcher, says that while the overall clothing market has been weak, children's apparel is a $28 billion market in the U.S. that has experienced nearly continuous growth since...
Just how big can the trend get? Big enough so that even former New York Giants linebacker Carl Banks is getting into the action. His G-III women's clothing line is devoted in part to jersey fashions. Says former quarterback crusher Banks: "In a time when women are striving to prove their equality to men, it goes to show, anything boys can do, girls can do better...
...Crimson were all-but-ousted from Ivy contention two weeks later in its second home defeat, a 3-2 overtime crusher to Princeton. Harvard never trailed in that game until a loose ball was banged past Cowan nine minutes into sudden death...
...course, director Jonathan Frakes (who also plays Commander Will Riker) deserves credit for maintaining consistency with Captain Picard, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) and all the rest. Frakes also commands strong performances from the non-Enterprise-crew cast members. F. Murray Abraham, winner of an Academy Award for his role as Salieri in Amadeus, is easily the most engaging character in the movie as Ru'afo, the diabolical leader of the Son'a. Two time Tony award winner Donna Murphy, who plays Picard's love-interest, the wise and strong Anij, also carries...
...makings of pop immortality: overnight stardom, singing Walkin' After Midnight on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts TV show; a string of pop and country hits (Crazy, She's Got You, I Fall to Pieces and the peerless heart crusher, Sweet Dreams); a rowdy domestic life; and the all-important early, violent death, in a plane crash when she was just 30. But Patsy Cline also had the goods: this woman could sing. Her bold contralto caught the pain and truth of a lyric without ever getting histrionic. "Oh, Lord," she famously said, "I sing just like I hurt inside...