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PINKY AND DIANNE. Two women who got their start doing custom designs for rock stars, Pinky (Wolman), 36, and Dianne (Beaudry), 37, have simmered down sufficiently since the '70s to produce clothes for men and women that add a silken worldliness to their original down and dirty flash. "We were tired of trash and wanted a smarter look," says Pinky. "We discovered silk, which we used for sportswear." Their designs are sassy and declarative, their colors showy but controlled. "We make clothes for a more urban lady, a sophisticate who follows the fashion magazines," says Pinky, who was recently...
...rarely railed, waxed livid on the subject: "Your borrowers of books-those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes." But how are such people to be put off, since they are often we, and the non-return of borrowed books is a custom as old as books themselves? ("Say, Gutenberg, what's this? And may I borrow it?") It is said that Charles I clutched a Bible as he mounted the scaffold. One shudders to imagine the last earthly question he heard...
...refused to find Harvard liable for more than a year of rental overcharges of tenants at 8 Pympton St. Although the official tally, according to the rent board's clerk, was 4-1, the five members never took a formal roll call vote, and two members, as is their custom, sat through the session with their backs three-quarters turned to the half-dozen citizens in the room...
...dinner service, with a raised presidential gold seal in the center of the plates and a red-and-gold lattice border, was accompanied by Morgantown crystal from the Kennedy White House and vermeil flatware purchased during the Monroe Administration. When one fretful guest reminded President Reagan of a Greek custom of breaking plates, Ronnie smiled, then said of such guests, "Well, they will either never be invited, or we'll just use the old china...
...golden rule" of letter writing recommended by the committee is merely a reiteration of a custom that is, in theory, already status quo. However, as the case of the Harvard doctors who composed letters for a colleague convicted of rape illustrates, the "golden rule" doctrine may not be followed in practice...