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Talk about bad timing. Just last week officials at Continental Airlines proudly unveiled new interior designs for their aircraft. But the spectacle of the troubled carrier showing off its blue-and-gray fabrics and contoured seating reminded airline experts of the old line about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Just a week earlier the airline had veered away from a return trip to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, from which it had emerged four years ago. Instead Continental may try to raise cash by selling off some of its valuable routes and other assets. Like many of its competitors...
...senior's statistics were unremarkable: 5-for-11 passing for 85 yards, one TD pass and one interception returned for a TD, 16 carries for 74 yards. But you can't argue with a full deck of points...
...Francisco's Marina district, where high-priced homes suffered heavy damage because many had been built on unstable landfills, low-rise apartment buildings still stand empty behind temporary scaffolding, awaiting new, reinforced foundations. The city's double-deck Embarcadero Freeway, which skirts the waterfront, remains closed. The board of supervisors voted narrowly to tear down the eyesore rather than rebuild it. But demolition has not yet begun because the city needs federal financing for much of the $135 million it will cost to replace the structure with a highway that runs partly underground...
...Reversal of Fortune treats them as if they were Noel Coward lovers gone to hell in a Lamborghini. Close carries herself with the cool, pathetic majesty of the prematurely doomed. She limps swankily, dines on sundaes and cigarettes, treats Claus as if "a male's place is in the deck chair." Irons wears a kept gentleman's tight smile and gracefully calibrates every gesture, his hand describing Palmer method circles in the air as he speaks in a voice mellowed in good schools and fine port. Perhaps there is only a pretense of loving, but pretense is everything. As they...
...shift at Smart results from the decision by Terry McDonell, its founding editor, to jump ship from a leaky rowboat to take charge of Esquire, which he likens to "walking onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Eisenhower." The change prompted Smart owner Owen Lipstein to merge his shaky start-up with a proposed rival, Men, and pick up its creators, Peter Kaplan and Chris Kimball, as editor and publishing director. In their vision, everything old is new again: Kaplan says his "new" magazine will attempt to recapture the personality of Esquire circa the 1930s, which he describes...