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...that point, what had seemed like foolhardy grandstanding suddenly looked like a clever legal maneuver. The program called Explorer, Microsoft lawyers explained, no longer exists as an independent entity. Microsoft engineers have woven ever larger chunks of Explorer code into the fabric of the Windows operating system in the form of those .DLL files--miniprograms that link PC applications to the Net. The more intertwined Explorer and Windows become, the more fluidly Windows will adapt to the Web--which is why rivals are so eager to stop Microsoft from tying the two together...
...Fashion Designers of America next week, has refrained from becoming a purveyor of life-style. He doesn't sell gimmicks or trends or, remarkably, given fashion's celebrity culture, himself. Each of his meticulously cut dresses, gowns and jackets stands as part of a technical, ongoing treatise on line, fabric, demure sensuality. Notes former Vogue editor Grace Mirabella: "He is the finest and purest designer we have...
...boundaries, and that's what really frightens people. Factories in Karachi, Pakistan, can now produce shorts as quickly and cheaply as an American company in Quitman, Ga. U.S. manufacturers have hooked up computerized counters to sewing machines so they can monitor how quickly each seamstress joins two pieces of fabric. Not only does that give instant feedback on productivity, but the new, networked plant also cuts down on the number of supervisors on the cutting-room floor...
...Diesel: "Little Rock, 1873" The fabric of jeans ads is usually interwoven with wit. But Italy's Diesel sews up the category by stitching outrageous, self-referential irony into the imagery of a spaghetti western. A filthy, overweight gunslinger swipes candy from a little girl, spits on a saloon floor and kicks a dog before shooting dead the Diesel-clad hero. Yes, nice guys do finish last...
...wheels and masks, dazzle with their allusive originality. Some of the most striking images are the simplest. Women with grass headdresses stand in a row and sway to manifest wind in the African savanna. When the lionesses grieve over the death of their King, Mufasa, they pull ribbons of fabric from their eyes to suggest tears...