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PRODUCT Peasant blouses HOW IT STARTED Tom Ford showed one last winter, to great success JUDGMENT Great in March; may be overplayed by June...
...extreme right-wing National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who ranks fourth, was first elected to parliament in 1956. Le Pen is trailed closely in the polls by Arlette Laguiller, a Trotskyite bank clerk on her fifth presidential run. One begins to wonder if Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Helmut Schmidt, James Callaghan and other long-retired statesmen might still be in the running if they had been French. Or whether it is time for a new revolution to bring in a Sixth Republic with a compulsory retirement age for politicians - unless they come up with new ideas...
...weeks ago, I earned my first-ever speeding ticket. It was an educational experience: I learned, for instance, that police officers often prowl Massachusetts highways in unmarked Ford Expeditions; that batting your eyes and acting apologetic will succeed only if you happen to be female (my beard didn’t help, obviously); and that this fair state charges $50 for the first ten miles over the speed limit, $10 for every mile thereafter, and then tacks on a $25 surcharge for the “head injury trust fund.” Thus, my ticket (handed...
...course, country music is tacky and sappy and simplistic and sung in a Southern accent. And of course it’s tailored to a certain mood—like cruising down a nearly-empty highway, with only a harmless-looking Ford Expedition for company. But it’s also an entertaining and uniquely American art form, written in the language of our vast country— the language of pickup trucks and open roads, of cowboys and honky-tonk bars...
Just watch out for Ford Expeditions...