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Leaving aside the high-profile pantheon of De la Renta, Adolfo and Herrera, some of the hottest young designers are building their collections and reputations around traditional Latin styles. Fernando Sanchez's luxurious lingerie, Isabel Toledo's topstitched, balloon-shaped skirts, Angel Estrada's sexy satin bustiers all have an unmistakable flair that is setting the standard for many designers across the country. "A Latin sensibility in fashion design is apparent in nuances," says Penny Harrison, a co-founder of Hispanic Designers Inc., "in a certain flair, elegance or the use of vivid color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Earth And Fire | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...Isabel Gardner, assistant dean of Cornell graduate school, says, "a Graduate School Committee functions to address any concerns voiced by the T.A.'s, but we don't have a union. There haven't been any specific complaints over salaries or benefits, but of course we would all like to see them paid more...

Author: By Jesus I. Ramirez, | Title: All Quiet on the Ivy Front: Keeping Students Happy | 4/16/1988 | See Source »

...Isabel Huggan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...town of Coamo, at least three automobiles plunged from a fallen bridge, killing eight. Nineteen bodies were pulled from the swollen Paso Seco River near the town of Santa Isabel, where another bridge gave way at the height of the deluge. Ironically, shortly after the weather front left Puerto Rico and gained sufficient new force to be classified as a tropical storm, Isabel was the name routinely assigned to it by the World Meteorological Organization. Isabel came close to gaining hurricane status as it approached the Florida coastline, but then rapidly dwindled in force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Rites for a Barrio | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Rites for a Barrio | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

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