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...wary of questioning. She comes alive, though, when we make a stop at the showroom of French designer Thierry Mugler. She loves shopping at the pricey places--Versace, Fendi, Chanel. Her taste in clothes, however, isn't always as sure as her taste in music. She tries on a floor-length purple coat that looks like something Rick James would have worn to Louis XIV's coronation. "Oh, my God!" she exclaims, loving it. Next, a lumpy bright orange coat that makes her look like a citrus industry spokeswoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: MARY'S NEW WORLD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...course, there is no comparison to the "Cheek to Cheek" number in the dazzling "Top Hat" (1935). Ginger Rogers appears in a silky, white, floor-length dress; Astaire sweeps her onto the floor and they dance into heaven, as the song says...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Grace Never Dies | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

...Governor's wife, than bake cookies for Chelsea and Bill, she took to compensatory cookie making on an industrial scale. Stung by Whitewater allegations, she did penance by giving a press conference in girlish pink. What can we expect if the Gingrich remark provokes yet another make-over? A floor-length Mother Hubbard gown of handloomed calico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Term of Honor | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...Evil Money are the Peace and Egalitarianism of a character from the future (Shelley Salamensky), who travels via the time machine and preaches about our present failures in women's rights, the environment and respect for the arts. Billed in the program as "the phosphorescent woman," she wears a floor-length Indian print dress of 1960s variety and talks in a blissed-out voice about sharing the earth...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: One-Sided Satire Mixes Morality With Absurdity | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...words of our Alma Mater: "Radcliffe, nowwe rise to greet thee."Photo courtesy of the Radcliffe CollegeArchivesBig band music and floor-length formaldresses at an All-College Dance in the 1940s...

Author: By Jane NEWMYER Rice, | Title: THE LAST NORMAL CLASS | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

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