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...impugning the prestige of the whole company. Newhouse is considered so temperamental and publicity-shy that some editors stipulate they cannot be quoted by name even to compliment him. The company's most successful editor, Tina Brown, who transformed Vanity Fair from an undirected, pretentious sprawl to the hottest, hippest monthly of the moment, concedes that Si rates editors by their circulation sales. Says Brown: "I'm very much aware of the numbers. I don't take my job for granted. I watch the figures very carefully." But Brown says Newhouse backs up editors who meet his marketplace standards. When...
...tribute to hipness, we offer the top 10 hippest Baltimore Oriole nick-names (compiled by Charm City locals Andy Fine and Andy Cameron, with an assist by yours truly...
...christened and so stocked, the Oliver Peoples shop opened on a tony patch of Sunset Boulevard, and has rapidly become the hippest name in eyewear. Selling a combination of Peoples antiques (at an average of $200 a pop), timely improvisations on his vintage designs ($90 to $225) and original concoctions of their own (all manufactured by Optec Japan), the Peoples people are scoring an eye-popping success. They have sold some 110,000 frames through a wholesale operation and opened accounts in chichi retail outlets from Europe to Japan to Australia. Says Richard Morgenthal, president of New York City...
Meet Brigada S, the hottest, hippest band in Gorbachev's Soviet Union. After a history of often bitter confrontations with police and schoolteachers, Brigada S (or the S Brigade, christened by lead singer Igor Sukachev because he liked the letter S) has become one of the most popular of the new generation of rock bands. Although the four-year-old group has yet to produce an album, the self-described "Proletarian Jazz Orchestra" enjoys a tremendous following. Teens from Tallinn to Vladivostok spray-paint the band's name, with the Russian equivalent of S drawn like a Communist hammer...
...habit, was arrested for possession and distribution, and is awaiting trial. Her sister Lovette, nicknamed "Betsy," was also a drug abuser; she lived a short life in the fast lane. Betsy had her first child at 16 and a second by a different father at 19. She wore the hippest threads, went to the trendiest places, and consumed drugs as casually as most people eat hamburgers. Crack. Marijuana. Codeine. One afternoon this past April, the youngest of the sisters, Kemya, found her 22-year-old sister sitting fully clothed on the toilet, stone cold. To this day Minnie Wolf insists...