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Should you still find yourself giftless for that special someone who is passionate about dress, this beautifully illustrated 510-page style encyclopedia could be your salvation. Surveying the past 150 years of fashion history, the book goes beyond what might be expected of such a compilation, offering up entries not only on celebrated designers from Paul Poiret to Helmut Lang but also on tastemakers generally less well known--for example, textile creator Zika Ascher, cobbler Pietro Yantorny and early 20th century cosmetics manufacturer Alexandre Napoleon Bourjoi. Another plus: at $39.95, The Fashion Book is about one-sixth the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Fashion Book | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Musical World as "ranting hyperbole and excruciating cacophony." Tchaikovsky was assured by the Boston Evening Transcript that his new Fifth Symphony was "pandemonium, delerium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded." And Tchaikovsky himself was not above recording a terse opinion about Brahms: "That scoundrel . . . What a giftless bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lexicon for Critics | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

...credence. Last week Diamond Match prepared for a great capital reorganization. Causes of this were: 1) unfavorable taxation features in its present charter; 2) the lack of marketability in its highly priced, closely held stock. To stockholders the reorganization is one of the nicest gifts of an almost giftless year. For each share of common they will receive four new shares of common, five of participating preferred, a $25 cash bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Diamond Deal? | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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