Word: di
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...value of Diana's old trappings has gone through the roof. A Rolls-Royce she once used was snapped up by one midwest farmer before her death. Now he, along with those who recently purchased Di's old dresses at Christies, has already made a profit. Of course, commercializing famous deaths is nothing new: Elvis paraphernalia made millions during the 20th anniversary of the King's death last month. But in this case, the timing is a little off ? Diana has not even been laid to rest. Needless to say, TIME Daily declined the screen saver offer...
...TIME Bulletin Board: Princess Di's Death...
...Reggio di Calabria, the southern Italian port city where Gianni Versace came of age, isn't the sort of place where enviably tasteful women nibble on lunch and devour the most recent issues of Vogue. A small city with a rich Greco-Roman heritage, it has become increasingly downtrodden during the past decades. Growing up there in the 1950s and '60s, Versace witnessed the miserable postwar poverty that filled the streets, but could find elegance in the turquoise Strait of Messina that lay just beyond them. His was a city where Calabrian Mafiosi thrived in all their cheap glamour...
...geography is destiny, then Reggio di Calabria was a fitting birthplace for the Italian designer who built a $1 billion fashion empire on the notion that there should be no barriers between the worlds of high culture and low, no dividing line between the aesthetics of refinement and ostentation. He finished off his splendidly cut couture gowns (costing $20,000-plus) with accoutrements of denim and plastic. During his abbreviated life Versace designed costumes for several operas produced at Milan's fabled La Scala, and outfitted the cast of Miami Vice. He took stately villas and compounds in Milan, Lake...
...their headlines, trying to look nonchalant as I read as much of the front page as I can before the old lady in front of me finishes paying for her Metamucil and prune juice. Inevitably, I move forward embarrassed for having been pulled in, dying to know if Princess Di really is having an affair with her ex-husband's butler. Even as I mock the papers whose lead stories deal with aliens almost as often as they write about us human types, I am aware of the effect of their conspiratorial, scandal-seeking message on my own assumptions...