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They are like butterflies, iron or lace, caught in the political turbulence created by their husbands. They can be flashes of beauty and grace in the dark crevices of society or symbols of comfort and quiet hope in times of national despair. First Ladies have an impossible job, and each has a different challenge...
...taxpayers' money. Her husband came to slow the trend. Nancy Reagan was judged harshly by some lingering partisans of the counterculture: the devoted wife was somehow suspect, the pursuit of everyday excellence often judged a waste of energy, and mediocrity celebrated in dress, manners and mind. Lace butterflies can get crushed. She almost...
...with Christmas shoppers that latecomers have been forced to queue up outside. Carla Fendi, one of five sisters who run the family's fashions, furs and luggage firm, predicts that sales will be up 20% over last December led by bestsellers "with the style and flair," like gold lace blouses $600 apiece. Gucci has leather jeans at $500 a pair, while Doney's café on the Via Veneto is finding buyers for a $100 wicker basket holding only a bottle of champagne, a toy dog and a small package of chocolates...
Laura Ashley stores present buyers with a carefully planned atmosphere of gentility: china cups sprinkled with dainty flowers, velvet or taffeta ball gowns with lace collars, ruffled canopy curtains atop four-poster beds. Half of the sales come from women's clothes, the other half from decorating products. The firm traces its success to the distinctive, neo-Victorian look of all its goods, which creates a setting where Charlotte and Emily Brontë could easily feel at home. Says Peter Revers, president of the firm's American operation: "Laura Ashley sells lifestyles, not products per se-English life...
...IBIS, NOT KERMIT, for Lisa A. Henson, To the 'Poon she'll add humor and, we hope, thensum. Robin Schmidt and Lou Armistead will find great so-lace, When construction begins on University Place. Deane Lord and Al Alcorn strong stories will find, Freeing their Gazette from its once-a-week bind. And as for Sally Z., the tenant's best friend, We can't grant her wish and let rent control end. The good Reverend Gomes (the Configuide's star), May daub local sinners with feathers and tar. We doubt it, though; he's an awfully nice...