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...Somebody forgot to tell Thierry Mugler about '90s frugality. The Paris show introducing his fall collection last week was so brazenly theatrical that even the drag queens in the audience were taken aback. Supermodels like CLAUDIA SCHIFFER (with a swirly 'do) shared the catwalk with celebrities TIPPI HEDREN and PATTY HEARST, who stripped (somewhat awkwardly) down to sequins. Mugler wowed the crowd with ensembles made of tight black plastic, skirts that bloomed up from the waist and a robot suit that took six months to make. Said the designer to Le Figaro: "You can understand...
...dancing with the devil in Zaire, participating in that country's highly lucrative diamond trade [Zaire, Feb. 27]. I find it curious that a man who professes his life's work is preaching the word of God would have a net worth exceeding several million dollars. Oh, I forgot, those dollars are from the profits of the many corporations owned by Robertson or his church. I wonder if the revenue realized from his African endeavors will be tax-exempt because it comes from his African Development...
...destination, muttering, "What the hell is he thinking? Is he from the depths of the Yukon, where this kind of weather would be normal for, say, mid-May?" Maybe he just likes being comfortable in overheated sections when everyone else is sweating to death. Or perhaps his parents simply forgot to tell him to bundle up before he went out to play in the snow...
When Richard Steen, former acting director of Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), compared Harvard's primary computer planning and maintenance program to a sinking ship, he forgot to mention that it was also missing a compass. HASCS's lack of central direction and clear policy was never more evident than in last week's discovery and haphazard treatment of a public log file revealing the names of Harvard community members and their network addresses...
...have no idea what happened to them," Fine said of his records. "I suspect that someone wanted to read the minutes, took the book, and forgot to bring it back...