Word: handbagged
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...Within 18 months, the market had tanked and the apartment's value had 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 continued to be a dud: after eight miserable years, we sold out for a loss...
...suspect you might have cancer before they told you? A. No. And I went in with a little handbag, fully convinced that I would be on my way to Camp David the next morning. And they came back in after having taken out the polyp and told me that they had found this other type. And they said, about this other type, that we have no evidence whether there are cancer cells, but it is the kind that can be cancerous. And they said, now you're all prepped, you're here. That prepping took a lot of imbibing...
...Despite her success, Yu has no plans to quit Vietnam for the bright lights of the world's fashion capitals, preferring to supervise production in Hanoi. "I really wanted to show the local craftsmen that they could make something like a handbag into an exportable item," she says. Breaking new ground is all in a day's work for the girl from Ipa-Nima...
...iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Care to guess the source of the hottest handbags of the moment - the ones that celebrities like Toni Braxton, Sarah Michelle-Gellar and Cate Blanchett have been toting? The answer is Hanoi - or, to be precise, the Vietnamese capital's Ipa-Nima boutique (ipa-nima.com). Founded in 1997 by a onetime lawyer, Hong Kong-born Christina Yu, Ipa-Nima had grand...
...Ellery St. resident reported that between 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., while at the Temple Beth Shalom, an unknown person(s) stole her wallet from her handbag. Her purse was left in the hallway and contained a checkbook, $1,500 check, $100 cash, health and credit cards, and a driver’s license...