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Picture exhanging gold bands with him or her. Picture a diamond. Picture forever...
...LIFE, Diamond...
...compare her with vocalists of a bygone era, but Sade, 26, cites instead such contemporary influences as Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and Joni Mitchell. Whatever her sources, the Nigerian-born, English-bred singer has cut a unique groove for herself. Sade (pronounced Shar-day) saw her 1984 debut album, Diamond Life, go platinum while her second, Promise, is shooting up the charts, and her current eight-city U.S. tour is sold out. She has also been named one of the world's ten most elegant women by Elle magazine. Pretty good for someone who got into singing only to earn...
...Abrams; 238 pages; $60) very handsomely makes clear. In the early part of the century, designers like the Spaniard Luis Masriera were turning out lovely art nouveau brooches--golden angels balancing gleaming pearls--and as late as 1949 Salvador Dali transformed one of his famous surrealistic eyes into a diamond, ruby and enamel watch. The gold and the jewels still shine in the '80s, but too many designers, alas, seem to specialize in the weird and bizarre...
Competition for the Diamond-Star plant, which will provide 2,500 jobs, sparked a new war between the states. Illinois edged out Indiana, Ohio and Michigan by offering Diamond-Star $160 million in tax breaks, $40 million for worker-training programs and $43 million for sewers, highway improvements and other projects needed to turn cornfields into a factory complex...