Word: isaacs
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...certain uncertainty lurked beneath the chiffon-handkerchief hems of every Daisy Buchanan garden-print dress. It is not just a reflection of a shaky economy that has weakened sales and sent once high-end designers like Isaac Mizrahi to Target to hawk $25 silk shirts. Off the runway, the hand wringing was over the corporatization of fashion. Cliquey social critics complained that the mainstream thrust of fashion was diluting its cool factor. And on the runways, the demands of the shows' sponsors were making for some strange scenarios...
...Isaac Tigrett, the founder of the Hard Rock Cafe, opened the first House of Blues on Thanksgiving...
...hours after it opened in New York City last week, a temporary Target store ran through its stock of 2,000 shopping bags. The buying frenzy was brought on by fashionistas lunging for new designs like the silk logo shirt ($24.99), left, created by Isaac Mizrahi for the mass-market retailer. "It's a big world out there," Mizrahi said, "and I want to dress everyone...
...Confusion in April 2004 and The System of the World in October 2004. But you'll wish it were longer. Its scope is galactically vast and encompasses the lives of noblemen, vagabonds and, above all, thinkers. Amid the still smoking aftermath of the Fire of London, the likes of Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz (both major characters) are laying the foundations of modern science by hand, equation by equation. Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking and thrilling. In The Baroque Cycle, he proves on an epic scale...
Like a comet in the night sky, they flared oh-so-brightly and disappeared--and then came back a few years later. In 1997 the pop group HANSON--brothers ZAC (the little one), TAYLOR (the cute one) and ISAAC (the other one)--sold more than 8 million copies of their debut album, Middle of Nowhere (maybe you remember their No. 1 single, MMMBop), but the band's second effort flopped, and Hanson went away for a long stay in pop purgatory. Now they're back playing club dates in support of a folksy new album called Underneath Acoustic. Little...