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...beckon to you from the window, or bunk smack up against you in the street, and invite you to come along." You're more likely to bump into a tourist in Montmartre today, but Miller would recognize those streetwalkers in other parts of the city. After dark, the ringroad that circles Paris is dotted with very young girls in very short skirts and very high heels, showcasing their wares in the headlights of passing cars. Depending on the area, they may be Moldovan, Nigerian or Chinese. In the Bois de Boulogne - a favorite of joggers and picnickers - transvestites from North...
...look (a little navy jacket worn with trademark costume jewelry) to the last (a fluffy variation on the little black dress), Lagerfeld showed stylish, pretty clothes designed to do one thing: sell. Yes, sell. Valentino manages to move more than a few haute couture dresses, too - even in these dark days. This spring the socialites who flock to his showroom will likely walk away with a couple of little white suits, while the celebrities will fight for the floral dress with flowing scarves coming off the back. Meanwhile, Emanuel Ungaro went with Belle Epoque elegance, but added a dash...
...forget the clammy sexual intimacies of Vox and The Fermata)--Baker returns to the delightfully discursive, observational voice he used in his first novel, The Mezzanine. But in A Box of Matches this voice has acquired a husky resonance it never had before, a basso register that hints at dark, existential depths. Daydreams of suicide flit at the edge of Emmett's consciousness, intimations of illness, echoes of past pain...
Some of the happy-talk books may help their readers get through one or two dark nights of the soul. But the wisdom they ladle out is often scattershot, anecdotal, an Oprah sermon in paperback. Few of them are written by psychiatrists or psychologists; few are based on solid research...
...AKIHITO, 69, for prostate cancer treatment; in Tokyo. A tumor was discovered last December, and the Emperor is expected to remain in hospital for about a month after an operation to remove it. The news came as a surprise to a Japanese public accustomed to being kept in the dark about their monarch's health; Akihito is long credited with trying to modernize the royal family...