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...Within 18 months, the market tanked and the apartment's value plunged by a third. By then our tenant--who turned out to be a coke-snorting stripper--had stopped paying rent. When I threatened to change the locks, she whacked me on the head with her handbag and warned, "I know people in this town, and you're going to end up at the bottom of the East River." She moved out the next day, but the investment remained a dud. After eight miserable years, we sold out at a loss...
Raisa Gorbachev fit into Icelandic plans perfectly. For two days the genteel Raisa was an enthusiastic booster of Icelandic ways and wares. Dressed in a three-quarter-length silver-fox coat and black suede boots with a matching handbag, she appeared at a popular public swimming pool fed by sulfurous waters from Iceland's famed geothermal springs. The swimmers, who apparently had not been informed of the visit, paddled through the steamy mist in rubber caps and goggles to greet the Soviet First Lady. When Raisa applauded them, they clapped in return like performing seals. She then leaned over...
Annie Anderson is a serious, investigative journalist who goes to work for Handbag, a fashion magazine. When the designer she's profiling takes two slugs in the chest, Annie is plunged into two surefire plots: a whodunit and a satirical fashion-world exposé. Baker is the editor of Britain's Cosmopolitan, so she knows whereof she writes--and she actually writes well. Annie and her colleagues have real inner demons to nip at the heels of their Manolos. By the end of Fashion Victim, you may even believe that models have feelings...
...officer investigated the theft of a pink and brown handbag that had been stolen at Au Bon Pain. It, along with its contents, was worth a total...
Anyone who saw his wife's handbag collection on MTV Cribs knows that hip-hop mogul RUSSELL SIMMONS has some serious coin. Now Simmons is teaming with financial guru SUZE ORMAN to teach cash-strapped young people how to manage their money. Their six-city tour starting this week in Detroit, "Get Your Money Right," will include seminars on credit scores, home ownership and car financing and guest appearances by Eminem and American Idol's Fantasia Barrino. Because nothing says down payment on a first home like a No. 1 album...