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...last week, fashion's famous let their wilder ideas go to models' heads. At Christian Dior, Oriental wigs covered up the famous tresses of the likes of CINDY CRAWFORD (far left). Givenchy stylists put others in hedge-like mop tops. Issey Miyake seemed to be aiming for the postmodern haystack, while KATE MOSS'S wedge (second from left) almost distracted from Chanel's most unbusinesslike bikini-and-woolen-suit ensemble...
...order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...
...Vermont granite used in some of Washington's federal buildings, a patient walking out of a hospital after radiation therapy, even a bunch of bananas can set off the detectors. Finding a nuclear bomb in a city, according to a searcher, "is like looking for a needle in a haystack of needles...
...HAYSTACK, by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a prize: a fascinating, beautifully drawn progression of Midwestern farmscapes showing the yearly building and slow consumption of an enormous, barn-sized haystack. Hay in a big field is cut with a tractor and sickle bar, then raked into windrows and stacked with a hydraulic lift and pitchforks. The great hay pile then serves as both food and shelter, first for cattle, then for pigs, through the long winter. There's no preaching, but important lessons are learned about work and weather, and how life might seem in the vast...
...result is supposed to be a web, a giant linking of volumes of text, video and audio clips, but in practice it turns out to be more like a haystack: a huge mess in which it is next to impossible to find even one needle...