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...surface gloss of stylishness also. Call it thrifty chic. Penny pinching is back in vogue, even among the rich. Jackie O. shops at the Gap. Christie Brinkley wears plain white men's T shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers...
...flat tire while in hot pursuit of search committee members during a rain shower. The driver--who hoped the escapade would reveal the committee's meeting place--miscalculated the proper speed for a turn on a ramp at New York's LaGuardia Airport and the Newscar slammed into a curb. The reporters continued the chase on foot...
...strong connection in people's minds between alcohol and Irish culture, perhaps she is unaware of just how much alcohol and pubs are a part of Irish cultural traditions. This same tradition has, admittedly, led to grave problems related to alcoholism, and there has been a profound movement to curb alcohol usage throughout Ireland. But alcohol, nonetheless, is quite central to Irish life. The vast number of regional stouts and whiskeys found in Ireland attest to the great popularity of alcohol among the Irish...
...question is posed constantly. Only the place names change. Mitchell, in his response to the President's State of the Union address, brought up China, El Salvador and Lithuania. Mario Cuomo, questioning George Bush's motive for intervening in the gulf, asks ironically, Was it designed to curb aggression? Then why not intervene in Afghanistan or Tibet...
...book begins with a simple account of the building of the Wall. Under Soviet paternal guidance, the East German government began construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, to curb the draining exodus of frustrated East Germans to the West. Many people in Borneman's book felt as if a limb had been amputated, but others saw the Wall as an opportunity to exclude the hypnotic charm of the West. It would give socialism time to grow during its vulnerable infancy...