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Fred and Wilma would be hip: rocks are in. Today's trendiest fashion houses are studding pants, blouses, bags and belts with enough of them to fill a quarry. A Bill Blass evening gown is strewn with coral beads; Valentino adorns a pants-and-top set with turquoise and coral; and the extra-wide strap on Marni's messenger bag is festooned with rhinestones...
...Commencement Day, about 100 Winthrop House seniors clad in cap and gown marched after a five-piece band playing “When the Saints Go Marching In” and entered Harvard Yard for Commencement...
...Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton, in an Irish castle the couple rented for an estimated $3 million. One convenience that Mills chose not to take advantage of was having McCartney's daughter Stella, a well-regarded designer with her own label, make the wedding dress; instead, Mills sketched the gown herself, fueling rumors that she and Stella are not on chummy terms. Even wealth and fame can't guarantee peace in stepfamilies...
...silicone jiggle of a "ladyboy" (Thailand's English term for transsexuals) to the off-key oom-pah-pahs of the prison brass band. Stubble shows through sweat-beaded pancake as the transsexuals teeter in stiletto heels on the turf. Miss Nigeria has an Afro wig, Miss England a ball gown and crown. Miss Japan is mincing in a kimono. Miss America has a jerry-rigged hula skirt that threatens to fall down. A thick papier-machE chain is snipped with giant scissors, and its two halves waft skyward, borne by rafts of balloons. It seems an unnecessarily sadistic...
Although town-gown relationships are often touted as symbiotic, in that Harvard’s existence makes Cambridge a better and more interesting place and vice versa, Harvard’s neighbors are constantly on the defensive when it comes to University construction plans...