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Often described as a mannequin, remote and elegant, she seemed determined to underscore the bloody reality of death by gunshot. At Parkland, where the President was taken by ambulance, every time the Secret Service urged her out, she walked right back in, circling the trauma room. Dr. Marion Jenkins, now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacqueline Onassis: A Profile in Courage | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

Read in this context, Bainbridge's Scott is less than heroic. The novel is based on historical records, but the dialogue, descriptions and thematic patterning bear the author's elegant stamp. Her Antarctica glitters and inspires: outcrops of jet-black rock kept bald by constant winds; prismatic ice masses shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Fatal Fiasco | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

I am a Paris-based designer, and you are right to expose the chaos of fashion today. What is happening in our business has nothing to do with making people look attractive, elegant or even interesting. On the contrary, the uglier you make the clothes, the louder the noise. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silly Fashions | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

No less distressingly, truly spectacular actors appear in farcical and overdone bit parts, Whoppi Goldberg fulfils the rather insignificant role of Jake's mother's quirky side-kick, as well as popping up successively as a hard-hat construction worker, a marching band conductor on an interstate, and the mask...

Author: By Edith Replogle, | Title: "Naked in New York" Clothes Bland Fare in Faux Zaniness | 5/13/1994 | See Source »

The constitution is elegant in its simplicity: "Any question may be committed to a referendum or poll by the council or by a petition signed by one-tenth of the undergraduates." Upon receiving the petition, however, Gabay decided that this simple clause actually implies all manner of complex restrictions on...

Author: By Anjalee C. Davis, | Title: Boycott the U.C. Referendum | 4/20/1994 | See Source »

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