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...Designer Geoffrey Beene, who scrupulously avoids ephemera, says, "I wouldn't make fun of women by dressing them as children. It's a trick that has been used by streetwalkers in Paris for years." That does not seem to bother other rulers of fashion. Karl Lagerfeld likes the style, though he thinks it looks best on women with "runway bodies...
...here are Burns and co-writer Geoffrey C. Ward, in the elegiac introduction to the series (as well as to the hefty companion book being issued simultaneously by Knopf): "At its heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game, born in crowded cities; an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating and has excluded as many as it has included; a profoundly conservative game that often manages to be years ahead of its time. It is an American odyssey that links sons and daughters to fathers and grandfathers. And it reflects a host of age-old American tensions: between workers and owners...
...floors below were polished by kisses of the faithful. Under the Soviet regime, with its Stalinist housing bunkers and oppressive military bearing, the city became a grimmer place, but one that was anchored, orderly, predictable, even if, to many outsiders, drab and downcast. By 1976, the British journalist Geoffrey Bocca could describe the scene as a "crushing concatenation of faceless, shabby, shoving, rude and, above all, indifferent, uninterested people...
...debate in your home or office featuring Democratic pollster Peter Hart and his partner Geoffrey Garin battling it out with Norman Ornstein, analyst for the American Enterprise Institute, and Ben Wattenberg, author and host of the new PBS talk show Think Tank...
...attempting to use his office and theprestige that goes with [it] to try to get anappeal and a new trial," says Geoffrey Gardner, amember of the Cambridge Tenants Union who spoke atMonday's council meeting. "It completely taintsthe prestige of the council...