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...recently. It's not just the colorful, celebrity-studded campaign from the anti-fur folks; it's the vague sensibility that a big plush fur on anyone born after 1930 either is the height of '80s ostentation or smacks of trying too hard--what some people call the DKAA (Donna Karan for Administrative Assistants) look. "Until two years ago," says Sandy Parker, the industry's eminence grise and the publisher of a fur newsletter, Sandy Parker Reports, "younger people weren't anti-fur; they were just ignoring fur." It couldn't be more different now. "The way designers were cutting...
Since his winning debut collection in 1988, Mizrahi had been considered the heir to the American sportswear throne shared by Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren. But unlike the holy trinity, Mizrahi, who trafficked in whimsical, feminine, but rarely outlandish garments, never managed to create a signature look. "There were brilliant first collections," notes Richard Martin, head of the Costume Institute at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "but they became more and more erratic. Calvin, Donna and Ralph all developed something very distinctive...
There is one psychic currently listed in Cambridge, Mrs. Donna at 1923 Mass...
...sorrow. When he sat down with his Cabinet Thursday afternoon, for the first time since enlisting their support to defend him last January, he bared his soul and watered his eyes and shared some Scripture and defended his record in office. But when Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala suggested that "surely your personal behavior is as important as your policies," his face went red, and he slapped her down hard. "If you were judging on personal behavior and not policies," he snapped, "then Richard Nixon should have been elected in 1960, not John Kennedy." The room went silent...
...this duplicitous approach reveals the false-hood of his contrition. And if the nation needs more evidence of how he truly feels, it need only look at his angry treatment of his Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala during last week's cabinet meeting, at which he was supposed to apologize for lying to his advisers for the better part of a year. When Shalala questioned the president's separation of political and moral authority, he reacted to her criticism by turning the assault back on her, further proving that he believes his actions are beyond reproach...