Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took $21,000 from the House post office over two years by trading expense vouchers for cash instead of stamps, or for stamps later exchanged for cash. The investigation broadened to include accusations that Rostenkowski used campaign funds to rent a vacant office in a building he owned, put "ghost" employees on his payroll, and acquired ownership of cars he supposedly rented with expense money...
Critics didn't know what to do with Canon O'Brien, so they just trashed his show. Until recently. Viewers and writers are taking a second look and revising their first opinions as the new Late Night hits its stride and shakes off the ghost of David Letterman...
...Lagerfeld was afflicted with the fuzzy-wuzzies, but he was hardly the only one: mohair will be hard to avoid this fall. In the U.S. several younger houses -- Vivienne Tam, Isaac Mizrahi, Ghost -- used it. Ralph Lauren, in a collection that relocated his country look to Sherwood Forest in the Middle Ages, featured it in rare long skirts. In his CK line, Calvin Klein had bunny minis in furry pastels...
...newer designers seemed to be talking only to one another. Sui, a smart stylist who is capable of authentic downtown chic, concentrated instead on jarring outfits that needed translation, either to fit the body or to decipher where they might possibly be worn. Britain's Tonya Sarne, who designs Ghost and was a big hit last year, seemed intent on damning British society rather than selling beautiful or interesting clothes. Bizarrely, several outfits were named for Prime Minister John Major. They consisted of clashing hodgepodges of colors, stripes, prints and waiflike little dresses that exposed all undergarments -- a comment, presumably...
Such outfits were not outrageous couture fantasies; they were ready-to-wear clothes with prices accessible to many women. Most of the hell-raising pieces in Byron Lars' young collection are around $300. Anna Sui's are in about the same range. The Ghost line starts at $265 for an outfit. An Anne Klein skirt and jacket costs around $1,300. And, of course, fast, expert rip-offs make the popular styles affordable to anyone who can buy new clothes...