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...highlight of the celebration is the "Grand Ball," a lavish black tie affair on October 11. It will no doubt prove a memorable evening for those fortunate enough to attend. But even appropriately attired students willing to pay $15 per ticket will be left to their own devices that night, because entrance to the ball has been limited...
...automakers are enthusiastically turning to Italy, at least partly because the companies want to build vehicles that can fill special, small-volume niches in the marketplace. While typical U.S. auto plants are designed for assembling 220,000 cars annually, Italy still has the kind of shops where skilled workers lavish attention on just 5,000 or 10,000 cars a year. Detroit automakers particularly want to produce top-of-the-line vehicles that can compete with pricey imports. The domestic market for luxury cars, which are defined as those costing $15,000 or more, will make up an estimated...
...feature films. Its purely TV offerings have appeared more spottily in this country, but the sampling has been impressive. The Price, for example, is a suspense thriller that transcends its genre by an uncompromising, morally complex examination of the characters involved; 26 Bathrooms, a tongue-in-cheek tour of lavish and eccentric British lavatories, is the sort of loopy project one could never imagine on American TV. Though much of Channel 4's comedy does not travel well, Consuela, a 40-min. film directed by Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), is a neat, funny parody of Hitchcock's Rebecca...
...designer's global profits have brought home a lavish life-style for his family. They divide their time among a sprawling apartment on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park; a house on Montego Bay in Jamaica; a working ranch with 1,500 head of cattle near Telluride, Colo.; and an oceanfront house at the tip of Long Island. The family commutes over the long hauls in a nine- passenger Hawker Siddeley jet and covers shorter distances in chartered helicopters. Lauren can be seen gliding through Manhattan in a limousine with the initials RL on the door, but he prefers to pilot...
Lauren's prime selling point is his image of patrician quality, which he polishes like the good silver. Even though most of his wares are manufactured by independent licensees, Lauren wants to maintain a distinct reputation for close attention to detail. He does so by lavishing time and care on his image- making advertisements, which spread the message of his design principles. As part of that studied approach, Lauren prefers lavish magazine spreads to television commercials, which he views as too fleeting to impart his message. "Ralph has some of the best advertising in the business because it sets...