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Hamnett, 39, has a deft hand for funk, and her clothes for men and women look lived-in even when they are freshly pressed, like something hung on a wooden peg behind the back door. She works largely and most successfully in utilitarian fabrics: cotton drill, lining silk and, for the coming season, leather that seems to have been ridden over by a motorcycle gang on a rainy Sunday. Her lines are loose and simple, the detailing fine and witty and heavy on the pockets. The clothes are not remakes of hardy perennials like parkas and biker jackets, but revisions...
Hamnett's influence is strong all over the fashion range, from the well- crafted intricacies of Marithe and Francois Girbaud to the heavy assimilations of Go Silk, a new American line that seems to have been entirely inspired by Hamnett's deft work with lining fabric. "I was called 'possibly the most copied designer working today' in the Observer," Hamnett reflects, managing to sound proud and a touch rueful at the same time. Her clothes are available all around the U.S., but the fullest range can be found at the designer's showcase store on London's Brompton Road. Originally...
...that was the good news. Of this trio of movie plays, Beyond Therapy brings the most severe disappointment because it held the most promise. Christopher Durang's 1981 play was a deft and rancid parody of psychobabble. The comely cast includes Jeff Goldblum, Julie Hagerty, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti and Christopher Guest. Robert Altman is an estimable director poised for comeback. He even had an idea about opening up the action: by setting this postromantic comedy more or less simultaneously in Manhattan, with its memory of Philip Barry penthouse sophistication, and Paris, locale of many a clockwork farce about...
Mario Cuomo is blessed -- or cursed -- with the ability to see both sides of any argument. As a lawyer, he was trained to plead pro and con and was always deft at making his case. As a man, he is inclined to argue inwardly, to question his motivations, his ambitions...
PERHAPS THE BEST parts of the novel are its action scenes. His style deft and spare, Maspero tells how Cat and Antoine try to steal food stamps one rainy night. Cat drops the stamps in the mud just as the brothers notice that lanterns are approaching, swinging ominously through the dark...