Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomson says that discovering "Color Me Beautiful" was the best thing that ever happened to me. "She has on Jackson's original palate of 30 colors for each season by buying up new fabric...
...care and storage of her $750,000-plus wardrobe. Among Hollywood closet queens, Zsa Zsa Gabor probably reigns supreme with a system that "many people say is bigger than Paramount's wardrobe department." Charlotte Ford hired New York Expert Mario Buatta to design her new closet with printed fabric resembling Matisse motifs, but she still hangs an overflow elsewhere in the apartment. In another Buatta supercloset. Author Hannah Pakula has installed a chaise longue, an exercise machine and several other comforts. The author spends many hours reading and writing in her clothes-lined retreat. This...
Copley Place was built on top of the turnpike mess. The hole in the urban fabric has become a rose-and-beige-striped building complex, housing two hotels (36 and 38 stories high, with a total of nearly 2,000 rooms), four seven-story office buildings, shopping galleries with 100 restaurants and stores (including such glossy names as Neiman-Marcus, Tiffany, Gucci and Saint Laurent), a nine-screen movie house and parking for 1,432 cars...
...There are a lot of ethnic groups which would be forced out by gentrification," says David Kronberg, editor of the neighborhood's quarterly newspaper, Losing those ethnic groups would, Kronberg adds, "erode the neighborhood's fabric...
...sense, the political rumblings represent a mulish refusal to accept the changes in Western Europe's social fabric. Serious debate has been hindered by rhetoric about immigration, which is all but over, and large-scale repatriation, which is all but impossible. "We haven't come to terms with the fact that black people are really here to stay," says Lawyer Paul Boateng, 32, who was an unsuccessful Labor candidate in Britain's last general election. "We regard black people as immigrants who are transients, or potentially transients. White society wants to believe...