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...place opens at the blackjack table I'm watching. A man in his 30s, dark and unshaven and clad entirely in light blue denim, breaks off from his friends at the next table and slips into place. He takes out his roll, which at first seems a big one. As he peels bills away, however, twenties give way to tens, fives and ones. He pulls off all the twenties and most of tens and places them on the felt. Thumbing through the bills, he finds a fifty at the center of the roll and adds it to the pile...
...week Ventura discussed his decision to hang it up in a phone call with state chairman and ally RICK MCCLUHAN. "You write for a family magazine, so I can't quote him exactly," recalls McCluhan. Last Friday, Ventura stood before the cameras in a Rolling Stones jacket and a denim shirt at the Governor's residence in St. Paul and declared himself free of the Reform Party, an independent Independent...
...home range, the southwest turns super-spicy. Any aspiring fashion hussy's wardrobe should be able to outfit both sides of General Custers' Last Stand. Every yuppie's really a cowgirl at heart. Perfect garb for cow-tipping and shit-kicking: sandblasted jean jackets by Calvin Klein and long denim skirts studded with faux plastic by Christian Dior. Throw on some floral moccasins, beaded earrings, and fringed bell-bottoms for a dynamo ensemble good for the office, a hot date, or an afterschool powwow...
...amused to read in an account of the press conference announcing the merger of Time Warner and America Online how AOL's Steve Case, who usually wears khakis and a denim shirt, put on a suit for the occasion, while Time Warner's Gerald Levin, who used to be a conservative dresser, showed up without a tie. The identity blur begins...
...Rothko worked, this area refers not to the mural series as a whole, but rather only to a single panel, Panel #2 in this case. Three rectangles floating vertically in space connected at top and bottom by tensioned weights, Panel #2's chromatic range is now a pale blue denim rinse. Before its deterioration, the painting was of a fabled crimson complexion. Rothko's Harvard murals have been deemed "damaged goods" by the cynics, but more optimistic critics would use the term vita brevis, ars brevis, the aesthetic embodiment of the fragility and impermanence of art and life represented...