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...sweatshirts. There are T shirts and flight jackets made of parachute silk by the gifted British designer Katharine Hamnett. The elaborate, intricately detailed pants concocted by Marithe and Francois Girbaud, whose various lines, made in the U.S., Europe and Japan, are characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric and an abundance of detailing. The simple functionality of jeans has, for the moment, been displaced by daunting arrays of tabs, Velcro closings, double pockets and looping drawstrings, so that the wearer, having mastered the intricacies of donning such a garment, emerges not as an urban cowboy...
Instead of monumental stone and steel, the design features banners, bunting and balloons fluttering in the wind, lightweight fantasy structures jutting into the sky, odd-shaped cardboard-and-fabric tents sheltering the crowds. What first strikes the eye is the color scheme created by Deborah Sussman, the graphic designer in charge of all the Olympic imagery. Says Sussman: "The palette consists of unexpected, stimulating juxtapositions that instantly separate the Olympic pageantry from the everyday environment, the drabness of permanent institutions, industries, streets-hot magenta, vermilion and chrome yellow, set off by aqua. They are Mediterranean colors but also suggest Mexican...
...food stands. Among the most striking are striped cardboard columns known as Sonotubes and normally used in making concrete forms, which give stature to rented tents, support cloth pyramids, and generally lend settings color, shape and order. Rented steel scaffolding has been bolted into lighthearted, ephemeral structures from which fabric waves. Thin, tubular balloons, some hundreds of feet long, sway in the air like giant streamers. Chain-link fences, essential for security, wear miles of fabric blazoned with Sussman's colors in stars and bars, as well as a special confetti pattern...
...debate a proposal, sponsored by Democrat Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, containing the same punitive measures plus some bonus incentives for states that take additional steps against drunken driving. "This slaughter hurts us as a people," the President said. "It tears up the fabric of society by bringing grief to families, guilt to friends and loss to the community...
...team has a 20-year lease agreement to play in the newly built, seven-acre, 61,000-seat stadium known as Hoosier Dome. The $78 million complex is in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, its white-fabric, air-supported, 257-ton roof puffed up like a huge blanket. The stadium, built with a combination of public and private funds, including multimillion-dollar endowments from foundations and a 1% tax on food and beverages, is a major reason why the Colts have come to Indianapolis, and a tribute to the foresight and business acumen of the people running the city...