Word: emeralds
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...things do it better than the vibrant Latin palette: jewel colors of ruby, emerald, luscious purples, used with black or mixed together. Ofelia Montejano, 30, an up-and-comer in the Los Angeles fashion world, weaves her favorite colors -- fuchsia, chartreuse and orange -- into her fabrics with yards of colored ribbon sewn onto black taffeta. "Using bright colors this way draws on my heritage," she says. "When I was a girl in Michoacan, Mexico, I admired the way even the poorest people made use of color. They take raw color and use it in a very honest...
...artist's death last year, after gallbladder surgery, the extent of his hoard had largely been a secret. As compulsive consumers go, he was inconspicuous. An old pal, Collector Suzie Frankfurt, once noticed a slight bulge under his shirt at a Studio 54 bash: it was a dazzling emerald necklace. Yet Warhol's opulent town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side was so cluttered with the fruits of his shopping binges that only two or three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster...
...notes with admiration that Eisner insisted on waiting in line for many of the attractions and mingled freely with the customers. "When I went to Disneyland as a kid, it was like visiting the Wizard of Oz," he says. "This time it was like getting a tour of the Emerald City from the man behind the curtain...
...while New York proved not to be the wrestlers' Emerald City, Providence isn't looking to precious either. The Bruins sport a 9-2-1 record, and are tied with the Lions for second place in the Ivy League...
...better tear-stained efforts, is about a less fortunate lady, Hilary Walker, whose father strangled her mother and then killed himself, who was torn from her two beloved sisters, indentured in foster homes and raped by adolescents of both sexes. But Hilary, with eyes like green ice or emerald fire, is a survivor who goes on to make it as a TV executive. And Steel, too maternal to leave a heroine unfulfilled and unmarried, sends her John Chapman, a man with "perfect teeth, and gentle eyes." It seems worth noting that John Chapman is the real name of Folk Hero...