Word: joans
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...Columbia University's journalism school in 21 categories. Among the winners: History-No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, by Doris Kearns Goodwin; Fiction-The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields; Poetry-Simple Truth, by Philip Levine; Biography-Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Joan D. Hedrick; Drama-The Young Man from Atlanta, by Horton Foote. The Virgin Islands Daily News (circ. 16,400) won in the Public Service category for a 10-part series on crime...
Retailers have been waiting to hear this for years. Says Joan Kaner, fashion director of Neiman Marcus, the upscale American department-store chain: "We have been complaining bitterly for the past few seasons that there aren't enough clothes for women to wear. Now there's a return to quality and beautiful fabrics." Says Nicole Fischelis, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue: "We are seeing a return to elegance, and it is unquestionably commercial...
...fall collections: Hollywood-inspired '40s retro glamour. His suits and dresses were stiletto-slim, with huge, dramatic sleeves or swaths of material around the shoulders or waist. Jackie wouldn't wear one of these, and Audrey would be overwhelmed in one, but it is easy to imagine Joan Crawford or Bette Davis stalking an errant lover using the costume as a weapon. Ghost, designed by Tanya Sarne -- who is also English -- was back in the black-and-white era too: waterfall dresses, flowing crepe trousers and handsome bias-cut skirts...
Supermodels owe their heightened visibility and success to a culture continually ravenous for new kinds of celebrities. Many observers argue that supermodels have topped movie stars on the fame hierarchy because they possess an ethereal allure missing since the '40s and '50s. "I couldn't ever picture Joan Crawford going to the supermarket to buy soap," notes Pauline Bernatchez, who runs the 24-year-old Parisian modeling agency Pauline's, "but I could easily envision Meryl Streep doing it with her children. Models seem more untouchable. People need glamour; they need to dream." Says designer Isaac Mizrahi: "When my mother...
Other artists who performed included Joan Jett, Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless of television's "Cagney and Lacey," and Salt of Salt N' Pepa...