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...That’ll be $40, Miss,” said a woman wearing nothing but a track jacket and small polyester hot pants...
Stephen King’s latest thriller has perhaps the most dreadfully dull cover ever conceived for a novel of his. The front is plain red with a shovel-shaped cutout on the front. Remove the dust jacket and you’ll find an overly colorful illustration of exotic, chaotically-growing flowers and weeds. According to the summary in the inner flap, the picture apparently depicts Boo’ya Moon, “a place that both terrified and healed him.” The “him” refers to the titular character?...
...jacket and goes off to apply for a job as a security guard at a five-star hotel. There he is mistaken for a journalist and whisked into a press banquet, one of many held in today's China to launch everything from[an error occurred while processing this directive] literacy campaigns to property developments. After a splendid meal - with an envelope of cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark...
Indeed, the price range--$147 to $598 for a jacket and $172 to $448 for a dress--means that Elie Tahari is within reach of more women than are designer tags like Prada or Gucci. But the real secret to Tahari's success, according to the designer's wife Rory, who is the brand's creative director, is the way the clothes fit. "Elie doesn't do fittings on models; he fits the samples on real women," she says. And customers respond. Ann Stordahl, executive vice president for women's apparel at Neiman Marcus, says that Elie Tahari...
...course, I could not resist picking up the latest Michael Connelly novel, “Echo Park,” released two weeks ago. I see two things: the name “Harry Bosch,” Los Angeles police detective, inside the jacket, and the properly stern face of Connelly on the back. Looks like a must-read...