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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much as any designer today, Kelly blurs the line between fashion and show biz. "I think of myself as a black male Lucille Ball," he says. "I like making people laugh." Indeed, can one imagine the reclusive Yves Saint Laurent skateboarding a la Kelly through Paris' seedier neighborhoods? Picture crusty Karl Lagerfeld nude from the waist up, posing for Vanity Fair, with red buttons over his nipples and 16 satin bows on his pigtails? Such antics have charmed the powerful French fashion press. "Le mignon petit noir Americain," enthused one Paris newspaper -- although in America being called a cute little...
...African-American family has been middle class since the 1700s and deeply involved in the fight for black equality. You brilliantly describe what it feels like to make $150,000 a year, pay high taxes and yet have a white woman in a supermarket line who assumes you are on welfare turn to her husband and say of the porterhouse steak in your basket, "Thanks to us, see what they can afford?" This piece should be required reading for every American...
...Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial in its efforts to obtain a conviction. Morris abandoned his original project in order to tell Adams' story in The Thin Blue Line, which won two major film awards and helped Adams finally win his freedom...
Despite its theological proppings, A Prayer for Owen Meany is a fable of political predestination. As usual, Irving delivers a boisterous cast, a spirited story line and a quality of prose that is frequently underestimated, even by his admirers. On the other hand, the novel invites trespass by symbol hunters. One can easily imagine college sophomores arguing over the meaning of a stuffed armadillo that has had its claws removed, or the significance of Wheelwright's carrying his small friend on his shoulders to slam-dunk a basketball. For graduate students there is the fact that Meany shares more than...
...talks. "There are still some groups in the valley that wouldn't sit in the same room with us." E.D.F. hopes to entice two of the more progressive irrigation districts, Firebaugh and Broadview, to risk heresy and agree to a 10,000-acre- foot pilot project. "The party line is that nobody takes water from agriculture. That's what they're going against...