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...have shown me their extensive underwear collections, pointing out a favorite blue camisole and matching tap pants. Shopping trips invariably end up at the ubiquitous boutique, where people who question spending thirty dollars on a pair of jeans will gleefully spend forty on tasty little bits of fabric and lace...

Author: By Sara A. Bibel, | Title: You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

Myth #2: Ballet dancers wear stupid, frilly tutus. Nope, not any more. Tutus are the costumes of the past. Today's dancers sport vibrant tights, flowing lace dresses, intricate jacket overlays and even wings...

Author: By Kelly T. Yee, | Title: Ballet for Beginners: The Shocking Truth (It Can Be Fun) | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...complements the characters without obscuring them. Nicole Gertrud Peskin's set design is an effective, not-too-ambitious late Victorian concoction of opulent brocade upholstery, polished parquet and lace curtains...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Shaw's World: Party On, George! | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

They range from jackbooted skinhead youths assaulting foreigners in Germany to sedately dressed middle-aged couples dining off lace tablecloths at a banquet outside Amiens -- under a poster urging the eviction of immigrants from France. Their leaders include old nobility, yuppie types, an ex- paratrooper who boasts of being born in a house with a dirt floor, and former communists. But whatever their appearance or origin, the far-right- wingers who are emerging across the European continent share an alarming attitude, if not exactly an ideology: a virulent nationalism expressed mainly as raw hatred of foreigners, particularly immigrants. They also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Surge to The Right | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS. Bumbling burglars, wiseacre kids, nasty adults, guilty secrets: this spook sonata sounds like a forced merger of Home Alone and Arsenic and Old Lace. The movie is all setup and little payoff, but writer-director Wes Craven (the first Nightmare on Elm Street) and a good cast make it fun. Sometimes the best part of a horror movie is waiting to be scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 25, 1991 | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

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