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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Either President Clinton and his cronies must go, or our country will. There are no other options. CHUCK BURGE Fort Lauderdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...message that fur was a distasteful and excessive luxury. But as with most things in fashion, the trend faded. In 1985, 45 designers were using fur. This year that figure is closer to 200. Giorgio Armani, Badgley Mischka and Carolina Herrera showed fur in their fall '98 collections either for the first time or after a long break, and fashion's current chief recipient of slavish admiration, John Galliano, did a whole fur line. (Oddly though, he outfitted his models to look like prostitutes.) In the early '90s when fashion magazines did fur shoots, the stylists asked that their names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Warming Up To Fur | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...animal-rights activists have affected sales, but all will acknowledge that fur has not been getting great press until 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Warming Up To Fur | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Maybe Clinton's place in history will not be the greatest. We can only guess. On the other hand, the place in history of the people who kept this entire investigation going for so long won't be so great either. Shame on us! BILLY WETTERER Wood River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...short form, as in "I think last night after the rally he IR'd that zaftig secretary from Scheduling." I can imagine consultants advising candidates that as a general rule, it's unwise to use the phrase youthful indiscretion if the dalliance took place at a time when either participant qualified for one of those leisure-housing developments like Sun City, Ariz., that are restricted to senior citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deplorable Down and Dirty | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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