Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place is the museum space at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology, alma mater of Calvin Klein and other top American design talent. FIT is just in the throes of giving the green trees of academe a good shaking. The institute has devoted much of its gallery space to a show called "The East Village," which offers an eye-scalding, rambunctious and appropriately free-spirited tour of boho fashion, Manhattan style. There is a lot of fun- house art on the walls, and sculpture that looks as if it belongs at an after- hours club on Easter Island...
Ortega derives some of his political popularity from having spent seven years in Somoza's prisons. In 1967, he was captured and jailed for participating in a bank robbery. During his incarceration, Ortega composed poetry. His most famous is called "I Never Saw Managua When Miniskirts Were in Fashion." After years of hunger--and, he claims, torture--he was freed in 1974 when a group of Sandinistas barged into a fancy Managua Christmas party, took a number of guests hostage and successfully demanded that Somoza release ! certain guerrillas, among them Ortega. He was then hustled off to Cuba, where...
When she turned 21 last month, she already had claims to fame as a model, fashion designer and royal. So what next on the wish list for the world's most thoroughly modern celebrity princess? Well, gosh, why not try to cut a record? Sounds like a giggle, but no joke, Monaco's Princess Stephanie now has a modest hit record in Europe. Stephanie reports that her latest career turn "came about completely by accident" when a friend at a recording studio casually suggested that she try a voice test. It went so well that she agreed to make...
Basinger, whose performance with Sam Shepard in his and Robert Altman's Fool for Love demonstrated that she should be above this stuff, is, thanks to Lyne's directing techniques, able to show the whole range of angst-ridden emotions from fear to guilt-ridden pleasure. But who could fashion a believable role from a script that requires her to suffer the ignominy of being trapped atop a ferris wheel at one moment and to prance down the boardwalk with Rourke as if nothing had happened at the next...
...said that the university had made no attempt to warn the CAA that it had planned to dismantle the shanties and had done so in "an underhand, covert fashion...