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...divorce announcement, however muddled, only served to reopen the scrapbooks of memory, reminding people of the fairy tale that was too good to be true. The shy teenager in the diaphanous skirt. The wedding shot--he in his dashing dress uniform, she in her silly, billowing gown. He looking every inch Prince Charming, she gazing at him in rapture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRACTURED FAIRY TALE | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...century and on the other as a misfit who could never measure up to exalted French standards. Last week's collection indicated strongly that Galliano belongs right where he is, but it was also uneven, the work of someone still learning a new game. The headliners were huge ball gowns, several of them striped in muted colors. Those who expected him to trash Givenchy's history were wrong. Among daytime clothes were several homages to the old master: suits with belted jackets, one charming dress with little bows on the four pockets. Galliano even co-opted Audrey Hepburn, naming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: THE NEW KID IN TOWN | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House derives innumerable benefits, financial and otherwise, from the University. The administration, in exchange, uses PBH's world-class student-run programs on the front page of many of its fundraising appeals. It also benefits from PBH's quality programs in terms of the town-gown relationship...

Author: By Quentin A. Palfrey, | Title: Peace Games | 11/22/1995 | See Source »

...part of many Americans to find reading materials that don't offer a moral conflict, that don't engage in gratuitous violence, sex and questionable language," says Phyllis Tickle, religion editor of Publishers Weekly. The tribulations of pretty Ariana, the chaste, Bible-memorizing heroine of Janette Oke's A Gown of Spanish Lace (Bethany House; 251 pages; $14.99), have enticed 238,000 hardback-book buyers so far--more than the latest novels by Jackie Collins, John Irving or James Michener. Such outsize commercial success does not register on most newspapers' best-seller lists because religious bookstores are not canvassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE ALMIGHTY TO THE RESCUE | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...member within the University could encourage students and faculty alike to voice concerns about community affairs. Moreover, we'd like to see at least one teacher as a councillor when it comes time to select the new superintendent of schools. We hope Winters will be able to bring town-gown cooperation to a new level as a literal link between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Picks For City Council | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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