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Some suspender wearers go for out-and-out flash. Lewis Preston, chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust, wears a pair of bright red braces. Even at Brooks Brothers, the citadel of conservative fashion, suspenders can be found in 28 different colors, from canary yellow to wild pink. Says Assistant Buyer Karen Clark: "Braces are one way these men can be kind of crazy within a perfectly acceptable realm. It allows them a bit of individuality...
Fifty years is a long time. Perhaps Eddie Murphy will show nothing more than firefly form: a flash of lightning followed by critical and popular pans. Perhaps he will tire of squeaky-clean living and head for Pryor-like self-immolation. Perhaps he will cease to be an entertainment event and become an agreeable habit, working a Vegas lounge, living on tired blood and the public's memories. But if he keeps going as he is going now-young, gifted, black and hot-he can hope for the ultimate backhanded compliment. On a Saturday Night Live in 2033, some...
...rearrange their vocabulary. Upbeat statistics, from strong department-store and auto sales to improved housing starts, suggest that consumers are regaining their confidence faster than expected, and surprised forecasters are rushing back to their computers to come up with rosier predictions. Last week the Commerce Department released a preliminary "flash" estimate that the U.S. gross national product was growing at a 6.6% annual rate, after adjustment for inflation, during the April-June quarter, up from 2.6% in the year's first three months. Many economists believe that second quarter G.N.P. growth may actually hit a sizzling 8% annual rate...
...voice twinkling, Ronald Reagan interrupted his regular Saturday radio address with what he called a "news flash." Said the President: "Some years ago, a favorite movie theme was the crusading reporter-hat on the back of his head, clutching the phone-[who] would yell, 'Give me the city desk, I've got a story that'll crack this town wide open!' I've read that line a few times myself. Well, I'm not wearing a hat or clutching a phone. But I'd Like to make an important announcement. I have, today...
...England, Passion's title was Passion Play. The music of the Dies Irae boomingly punctuates some scenes, and the drama has a neoreligious subtext. James and Eleanor proclaim themselves atheists, but they are wistfully haunted by the death of God. While ranting about his right to "a flash of happiness before the void," James curses Christianity and Jesus Christ for depaganizing mankind: "The Christians took over the language of sexual emotion for their own purposes -passion, love, adoration, ecstasy . . . those words are now more meaningless than the so-called dirty words...