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...math skills--is the Moby Dick of graduate entrance exams. After taking the test, many pre-meds have to be be rushed to local emergency units and reassured that real doctors do not have to diagram electrical circuits. (Other pre-meds go on to take the LSATs and GREs before breaking to go to the bathroom, as part of the Irongrubber Triathalon. The winner never...
...that none of these people are believable as disciplined members of the underground. They are sensitive, spoiled Sagan characters, better at being bored than risking their necks. Out of their milieu, they remain oddly indistinct: when Charles admires one of Alice's frocks, she says, "It is a Gres . . . or a Heim." A true Sagan heroine would damn well know her designer...
...permanent collection. It is also highly symbolic: the windows, worked neatly into the exhibition space by Kahane, overlook a splendid Parisian landscape where fashion still thrives as it does no place else in the world. Just a short distance away are the couture houses of Saint Laurent, Madame Gres, Givenchy and Dior, which began their spring/summer showings even as Mitterrand was presiding over the museum's official opening. In March, the courtyard of the Louvre will be overrun by the world fashion press and buyers assembled to check out over 50 different ready-to-wear shows. At the Museum...
Christian Dior created not only the New Look but a new silhouette every six months. Mme. Gres has been turning out her gently flowing dresses pretty much the same way for more than a half-century. Paul Poiret, the first celebrity couturier, left nothing undesigned, not only what a woman wore but everything she touched. His spiritual heir, Ralph Lauren, clothes not only whole milieus but fantasies as well: the dream of belonging, whether to a club or a board or the ski crowd at Vail. Giorgio Armani influenced the way almost every designer thinks by adapting to classic dictates...
...LSATs? GREs? MCATs...