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...fact, the term "business liberal" is the perfect label for Cohen, who this summer will attend the Radcliffe publishing course in preparation for a career in book or magazine publishing. "The apple's not falling too far from this particular tree," he says...
...bold black-and-white label will begin appearing by July on many musical recordings sold in the U.S. Its message: PARENTAL ADVISORY -- EXPLICIT LYRICS. Last week the recording industry unveiled the uniform marking in an attempt to fend off bills in five state legislatures that would require labels on recordings that contain explicit lyrics dealing with sex, violence, suicide, drug use, bigotry and satanism. Under the industry's program, the decision to put the standardized label on a new release would be made by the record company and the artists rather than by government officials...
...Parents' Music Resource Center, which has crusaded against explicit lyrics, applauded the move. Local politicians were less pleased. "This plan doesn't even touch most of the music we're talking about," says Missouri legislator Jean Dixon. She points out that the trade group promoting the voluntary label, the Recording Industry Association of America, does not represent many of the companies that produce the most offensive albums...
...LOOK WHAT THE IRS PAYS FOR. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has cracked its regulatory whip at a descendant of the Marquis de Sade, an exporter of French champagne. The issue was not unfit bubbly but the bottle's label: a drawing of a nude woman with a chain across her outstretched arms. A new label shows the woman gowned, holding flowers...
...economic. As Christian Lacroix, whose palette is wild and whose prices are hair-raising, points out, "This fashion comes from the street, where young people create their own style." Tights and body stockings, topped with a big sweater or jacket, can be a cheap way to dress when a label like Lacroix's isn't attached. The average Danskin tights in nylon or Lycra blends range in price from $10 to about $13. At Barneys New York, the house line costs from $5 to $16, with designer labels from $16 to $25. At the top of the line, hand-printed...