Word: jersey
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...glamour, excess and hyperactive nightlife, the dresser of such gorgeous creatures as Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Lauren Bacall and Jacqueline Kennedy (he even created her pink pillbox hat). But as a designer, he was all minimalist chic. His simple, elegant lines, his use of sensual, clinging fabrics like jersey and cashmere and practical ones like Ultrasuede and his disavowal of the extraneous made him the quintessential American designer. But a businessman he was not. Long before he died in 1990, at the age of 57, he had lost control of his name, and his label was in tatters...
There is a power in giving up power," Bill Bradley is saying, "and I didn't expect that." The former NBA star and three-term Senator from New Jersey explains that after he left public office in 1996, he kept right on talking about his signature issues--race relations, global trade, economic stress, campaign-finance reform--"and people would come up and say, 'So you really believe the things you've always said? You weren't just trying to manipulate us for our votes?' And I'd say, 'No, this is what I feel.'" Bradley gives an impish grin...
...staff, veteran Democratic operative Ed Turlington, who operates out of Bradley's small office in Palo Alto, Calif., near the campus of Stanford University, where Bradley is a visiting professor this year. And sources close to Bradley tell TIME that their man has been in discussions with New Jersey trial lawyer Ted Wells, a major Democratic fund raiser and former Bradley finance chairman, to plan what a clean-but-effective fund-raising operation might look like. Campaign money is a ticklish subject for Bradley, who was criticized for raising a Goliath-like $12 million before his 1990 Senate race against...
Even though the Senators split four games with the Devils, few expected the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference to come into New Jersey's building and take the opener in the best-of-7 series...
...pass around the board by Doug Bodger, and Brodeur blocked his shot from the right point. Gardiner got the rebound and flipped it over a diving Brodeur, who was under tremendous pressure in the third period and overtime as referee Paul Devorski called three straight penalties against New Jersey...