Word: edith
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Newland is the hero of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence, and in his emotional corset he may seem a supporting player in life's melodrama, as far from the noisy concerns of our day as Polonius. The drawing-room virtues of reticence and gentility are considered dead in the Age of Prurience. Yet they still govern our lives whenever we check an impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero...
...unrestrained growth and infinite success is over. The Japan that is experiencing its most profound dislocations since its resurrection from World War II hardly looks any longer like the all-devouring Godzilla of Western myth. Former French Prime Minister Edith Cresson's publicly voiced fear of Japan's "desire to conquer the world" sounds off-key, and American workers can stop their bitter jokes about how they will all be laboring for Japanese bosses...
...assumption in France, though, is that while a designer makes daytime clothing, his real arena is the evening. In a very successful show, Christian Lacroix produced dazzling ball gowns, grand, inventive yet harmonious. Erik Mortensen, of Jean-Louis Scherrer, had a couple of extravaganzas worthy of an Edith Wharton parvenu. Compared with these flights into fairyland, the Balmain show is almost severe. De la Renta's gowns show the most exquisite materials and embroidery but are presented, as it were, in translation -- to a modern idiom. The last-minute bolts of georgette appear in a series of elegant sheaths, delicately...
BUSINESS OFFICE: Patti Brasfield, Edith Fiato, Nancy Krauter, Karen Maikisch- Markle, Gail Portier, Marilynda Kelly Vianna (Managers); Laurie Berman, David Geithner, Ruth Hazen, Barbara Herrmann, Mary Moon, Edith Rosa...
Freidel is survived by his second wife,Madeleine, of Belmont; his mother, Edith, ofOrange, Calif.; a brother; three sisters; fourdaughters; three sons; and eight grandchildren...