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...boutiques from Black Market and Batislavia to Tribe and 109 St. Mark's, are such items as an Eva Goodman nylon raincoat, colored like a beachball, done up with sailing-line pullies and decorated with squirmy rubber fishing lures; a black rubber dress with a zip from back to hem by Mariann Marlowe; and an all-vinyl snakeskin suit by Animal-X. Some of the clothes go for immediate impact over staying power. But there are a fair number of designers, like Morton and Goodman, who are imaginative enough to be in no immediate danger of a burnout, and there...
Chortle, chortle, gulp, hem. It gets less funny the more it sinks in. The what-ifs start to add up. Back when people lived in caves baby identification was easy--there was only one baby per cave at a time and no plexiglass to shield worried parents from maternity wards piled high with anonymous bawling infants...
...time for a change. But does that mean fashion is harking back to the '60s? Probably not. For one thing, it is no longer possible for anyone to dictate to women the way designers and the glamour press did 20 years ago. Consciousness has soared higher than any hem. Norma Kamali speaks for her customers when she says, "As a woman I don't want anybody telling me how I have to look, and I don't want to tell anybody, 'This is what you have to do.' " Most of her colleagues no longer want...
...succeed Hafez, 54, as President. That possibility seemed to loom larger last November, when the elder Assad suffered a serious heart attack. After Assad's recovery, Rifaat's elevation in February to the new, three-man vice presidency was seen as part of an attempt to hem in his power...
...performance). "Somebody ought to-Ought to-kiss you, Laura!" Jim proclaims. As he leans in and embraces her, Laura surrenders her body and mouth to him, but not yet her wavering right arm. The hand pauses in midair, uncertain whether or how to commit, then grasps firmly at the hem of Jim's jacket-the gesture of a little girl lost, holding for what's left of her dear life on to her image of manhood, of the father who deserted her in infancy. It is an aching moment, beautifully realized...