Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jessica McClintock, another hot West Coast designer, has also tried to play off of traditional Spanish costumes. "The shapes are stronger but simpler," she says of her silhouettes, "not old-time Spanish with ruffles." Though Latin shapes and detailing are showing up in sportswear lines, McClintock suggests that the richness of Spanish fashion is best reserved for evening wear. "Women are now wearing things that make grand-entrance statements," she says...
...Latin American holiday. Such is the spirit of New York City's hot Cafe Iguana where a 16-foot crystal iguana named Ava Gardner dangles over the bar. The restaurant is divided into seven "vacation spots," including a tropical bar complete with a thatched roof. Proprietor Joyce Steins calls the offerings "vacation cuisine, or performance food," with a Tex-Mex accent. An interesting touch: a garnish tray with chopped black olives, onions, pickled carrots, jalapeno peppers, pico de gallo and cilantro is placed on every table. Observes Steins: "Americans crave an alternative to catsup. We place these condiments...
Those not yet ready for so momentous an adventure could fill up on bright red, chili-fired Portuguese linguica sausage, oyster shooters (each a single- shelled oyster in a shot glass to be knocked back with a dash of lemon juice or cocktail sauce), assorted meat satays and hot dogs, pickled garlic, egg rolls, cookies, ice cream and chocolate-dipped strawberries, all washed down with soft drinks, beer or wine margaritas...
...become a dust bowl, and people are moving north into Canada's uplands to seek work. Even in Alaska, changing ocean currents are boosting the fish catch. New York is sweltering in 95 degrees weather that began in June and will continue through Labor Day. In the Southeast the hot spell started six weeks earlier...
...trickery by John Fowles. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love gets to the heart of sexual passion and its black aftermath. Both stories place an established couple in a charged, awkward confrontation with another couple -- a Carver specialty. He is 50 now, and considered a hot writer; 25 years after he began fashioning these tough, unliterary works, they are being picked up eagerly as emblems of late...