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...bigger than a chair, smaller than a sofa). Now Domain plans to rename it too--and has seen sales double. In another show, the crew went to the flagship Ralph Lauren store on Manhattan's East Side, where straight guy John Bargeman modeled a $795 Bazooka-gum-pink cashmere jacket. He opted for a more subdued outfit, but in the next week the store sold 12 of them. That's almost two sales a day--of a pink blazer...
...hotseat, a place that anyone involved in this Iraq debacle belongs. I relished it, though I relished it as a piece of fiction, as a film, as well as a truth: better drama than the West Wing any day. Tony Blair sits there in a clean white shirt, no jacket and a striped tie, trying desperately through equally desperate hand gestures to convey his good intentions. Our reason was good, he argues—more than good, it was humane, there was a danger, those weapons of mass destruction are serious and Saddam Hussein is even more so, both...
Which led me to think of our own dear President, W., and his position. And how he would die in that hotseat, sweating under the collar, loosening his red tie, small flag pin on the lapel of his jacket perfectly cocked, blind patriotism leaving him unaccountable. Humanity isn’t the issue for the fellow who referred to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay as “the bad guys,” takes some kind of pleasure in the death penalty (which he affectionately calls watching a man fry). He doesn’t, of course, appear...
...artists and prostitutes?the 30-year-old actor has managed over the past year to convert his tradition-tempered stylishness into modern star power through a series of spectacularly successful film and TV roles. Sipping cranberry juice in a Tokyo caf? before a performance, dressed in a silk summer jacket and jeans accessorized with a Beastie Boys cap and an oversize black-skull ring, he explains his crossover appeal with a mischievous analogy: "The original Kabuki actors had a real punk attitude. It was the rock music of the Edo period...
...After four hours of trawling, the mission is all but accomplished. The spoils: a black leather blouson jacket from M. Bogen & Sons of Boston (asking price: 2,000 baht, or $49; final purchase price: 1,200 baht); a pair of olive-green U.S. Army cotton fatigues (700 baht, bargained down to 400); a pair of well-worn Levi's 501s (800 baht, down to 650); a "Made in Hawaii" rayon aloha shirt with coconut-shell buttons (1,000 baht, down to 700); a Lee denim jacket (600 baht, down to 400); a black canvas belt?very Helmut Lang (fixed price...