Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JACKSON. High fashion, garnished with a pocket square. Hart gets the booby prize for his rumpled-tweed look...
Stankard, 44, is an artist in glass. His nimble fingers can fashion fragile slivers into wild flowers with a captivating attention to detail; leaves have been munched by insects; petals show the wilt of age; and beneath the plant a tangle of roots seeks nourishment from the earth. True, they are not exact replicas of woodland plants, but neither are they prettified curios. Each spiderwort, evening primrose or wood lily is a stylized representation of growth and decay. The complexity of the design, Stankard says, must not be obvious. "It must reveal itself...
...young vicomte and a chorus girl, and the dark, obsessive bond between that same young woman and the Phantom, who seeks to win her devotion by making her a star. The maiden is thus expected to choose between outward beauty and the beauty of the soul and, in protofeminist fashion, between status as a rich man's wife and acclaim as an artist in her own right. As befits a fantasy, she gets both by virtue of a brief display of compassion...
...Benedetti, who is chairman of Italy's Olivetti and holds stakes in companies ranging from the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house to the Buitoni Perugina food giant, managed to grab a major interest in La Generale -- also known as Belgium Inc. -- while no one was looking. His announcement last week that he had acquired an 18.6% share (market value: more than $300 million) largely through his Paris-based holding company, Cerus, prompted hurrahs in Italy's financial community. "It was a brilliant operation, a theatrical coup," said Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, and Italian newspapers bannered triumphant headlines like DE BENEDETTI...
Simon is willing to raise taxes, after a fashion, if the unemployment and interest rates refuse to respond to his entreaties. But clearly tax increases pain Simon; early drafts of his economic white paper had just one line on taxes. Even now, he plans to make up for any budget shortfall in outmoded soak-the-rich fashion: raising income-tax rates for individuals earning more than $100,000 a year. As unpopular as the rich may be in some Democratic Party circles, there just are not that many of them: each 1% increase in tax rates under Simon's plan...