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...have the designers. Fashion houses with distinctive personalities have been able to hew their brands to consumers' bottoms. Donna Karan, Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren and Versace have all successfully introduced their own line of jeans, with couture prices to match ($100 and up). Last year Calvin Klein, no stranger to America's hips, spun his jeans and sportswear empire into $470 million in sales for licensee Designer Holdings...
...skillful manipulation of language is the sole means of gaining and keeping social status. The world of Versailles is shaped by what they refer to as "wit." Lest one believe that this wit is based on the crass premise of merely producing amusement, one French noble dismisses disdainfully the "hew-mah" of the English as being far inferior to French wit. The use of wit is sadistic, funny only if you enjoy seeing people being cut down with a single brittle and elegant phrase. For all its elaborateness, it is a savage and blood-thirsty game, and one whose consequences...
...network before it became a verb. In her first job after Harvard, she joined the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and buttonholed its Secretary in the halls to ask ingratiating questions about Washington. Next she set her sights on consumer advocacy, lobbying James Goddard, head of HEW's Food and Drug Administration, to put her on President Lyndon Johnson's Committee on Consumer Affairs. In that role, she helped the committee's chairwoman, consumer advocate Betty Furness, write new laws demanding truth in packaging...
...Deena Mazer, Paula Plum and John P. Arnold each play fifteen people or more, many of whom are themselves performing their story. Clearly some characters are coloring the truth. Others are either delusional or simply lying. They want their memory to serve them and to protect them rather than hew to objectivity. The more deeply the actors dig into their characters the more the characters look like actors; resourceful, practiced, and more than mildly disingenuous...
...other words, if we simply abide by the Powell doctrine and hew to the Pentagon strategy of preparing for two simultaneous conventional wars, we would keep the U.S. military out of action unless the gravest kind of threat looms...