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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this doesn't mean Posen will make it. The fashion business has such a ferocious appetite for the new and young that it grinds them up early and completely. Exhibits A, B and C: the tormented careers of former guys-to-buy Miguel Adrover, Todd Oldham and Isaac Mizrahi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: BOY IN VOGUE | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...want to know what it was singing? Certainly. It was a plea to Israel from the Arab people. The chorus was, "We have the same father. Why do you treat us this way?" Who might the father be? I asked. "Ibrahim," he said. "The song is called Ismail and Isaac," after his sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy of Abraham | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...Jeff Bingaman ’65 (D-N.M.) The catalogue of what I don’t know is too vast to describe. Isaac Newton put it better than I can: “I don’t know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: What Harvard Doesn't Know | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

Many of today's alternative approaches are clever updates of old techniques. As part of the launch of new talk shows hosted by Isaac Mizrahi and Carrie Fisher, respectively, women's cable network Oxygen has dispatched ice-cream trucks to cruise the streets of New York City and Los Angeles and give out specially labeled popsicles and vitamin waters touting the coming broadcasts. Procter & Gamble sent out a trailer of elegant, air- conditioned Porta Potties, complete with hardwood floors and aromatherapy candles, to state fairs last summer to extol the virtues of Charmin toilet paper. Bottled-water producer Evian paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S AN AD, AD, AD, AD World | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...black man who fought, had explicit sex and tangled with white cops, yet didn't get killed for it by the end of the movie. Blaxploitation's heroes, men and women, had attitude and style and were true to the experience of black moviegoers. Roundtree's John Shaft, as Isaac Hayes sang, was "the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks"--but couldn't hail a cab in Manhattan. "We knew him," Samuel L. Jackson remembers. "We felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Dig It? Right On! | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

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