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...song like Sunday in the Park is a musical idyl to the garment workers' one day off, where lovers hold hands, mothers stroll with their tots and old people bask on sunny benches. The park has to be Central Park, since Pins and Needles is very New Yorky in tone and allusion. Now people still do those things in Central Park, but its current "social significance" is that it is a place one enters at the risk of being mugged or mangled by young thugs armed with baseball bats...
...that a woman has gone from the synthetic to the slept-in look, the aspiring businessman who shows up for work in such deshabille may soon find that his future is as unstructured as his suit. Europeans, on the other hand, have never looked askance at a wrinkled, rumpled garment as worn by the likes of Charles de Gaulle or Sophia Loren. Clearly, though, U.S. tastes are changing. In time, Americans may even perceive the beauty in a wrinkled face...
...Tyler, a representative from the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union spoke to a group in the Winthrop JCR on the relationship of multinational corporations to ills of the U.S. economy...
Rogers agency ads for Blackglama mink coats picture celebrities such as Lillian Hellman, Shirley MacLaine, Brigitte Bardot, Beverly Sills and Lena Horne in curious poses, always unidentified, wearing the $7,000 garment, under the head: "What becomes a legend most?" This emphasis on mystery and glamour is characteristic of the agency's work. And the style pays off. Blackglama sells eight of every ten mink coats marketed...
Both are the sons of immigrants. Koch's parents were Polish Jews who worked in garment-center sweatshops as youngsters. Cuomo's parents, illiterate in their own language, ran a grocery after emigrating from Italy. Both young men became lawyers before entering politics...