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Even the then-director, G. Wright Briggs, agreed to lace...
Thigh-highs are all over the stores, selling for between $6 and $60, in black, navy and white, and even plaids, Argyles, fancy lace and silk blends. "It's a lot of fashion for a little price," says Kal Ruttenstein, Bloomingdale's veteran vice president for fashion direction. Comments Benny Lin, Macy's fashion director: "It's not just a metropolitan thing -- it's selling well all over...
...warrior god who represents St. George. This Sunday, Constant is intent on communing with his loa at a temple in the valley north of Gonaives. By the time he arrives at the site -- a concrete hovel -- darkness has fallen. Inside is an altar topped with white lace, a cross and a merry christmas sign. At its base are rum bottles and skulls...
...Splash, Hanks sits at a bar and pours out his lace-valentine heart: "I wanna meet a woman and I wanna fall in love and I wanna get married and I wanna have a kid and I wanna go see him play a tooth in the school play. It's not much." But to ordinary, unique people -- the folks Hanks appeals to, and the folks he so smartly plays -- it's everything...
Curiously, what works on the computer networks isn't necessarily what works on paper. Netwriters freely lace their prose with strange acronyms and "smileys," the little faces constructed with punctuation marks and | intended to convey the winks, grins and grimaces of ordinary conversations. Somehow it all flows together quite smoothly. On the other hand, polished prose copied onto bulletin boards from books and magazines often seems long- winded and phony. Unless they adjust to the new medium, professional writers can come across as self-important blowhards in debates with more nimble networkers. Says Brock Meeks, a Washington-based reporter...