Word: fancifulism
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But not everywhere. At least one designer is leading a crusade of refinement against the outre. She is Germany's Jil Sander, 50, whose extremely simple, graceful clothes have won legions of devotees among women accustomed to spending upwards of $2,500 for a jacket and a pair of trousers...
| The theme of psychological and sexual child abuse should provide Shelter with a hot selling point. The violent and fanciful conclusion, in which the children carry out feral justice, should satisfy current assumptions about victimization and empowerment. There are high literary expectations for Phillips, but Shelter -- overwritten and trendy, an...
The author manages, more or less, to stay off the metaphorical sauce for the rest of the book. But other problems bedevil the story, which is the seventh of Burke's mysteries about Dave Robicheaux, a cop who belongs to A.A. The series shows signs of wear. Other Burke plots...
They called him by fanciful code names -- Top Hat, Bourbon, Donald, Roam -- and on the days when his latest cache of secrets would arrive at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, a CIA officer says, "it was like Christmas." There was something for everyone. The names of four U.S. military officers...
Women serve on aircraft carriers and on the Supreme Court, so it's striking, given rock's putative social progressiveness, that it is only now becoming routine for women and men to play together in rock groups as partners. All- male bands still dominate (and even as the Rolling Stones...