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...style; in Washington, Connecticut. Blass's clients included Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Nancy Kissinger and Barbara Walters. During his six-decade-long career, Blass went from being a $25-dollar-a-day design sketcher to a couturier with a licensing empire that put his name on everything from bed linen to perfumes and chocolate, and that was worth $50 million when Blass retired from designing in 1999. His label was taken over by Swedish designer Lars Nilsson in 2001. DIED. JOHN GOTTI, 61, Mafia don and godfather of one of the most powerful crime families in America, of throat cancer...
...Best Indoor Market: The Market Hall, a large two-story building with scores of stalls selling traditional Hungarian wares, from em-broidered linen to hot paprika and salami. Fövám körút 1-3. Open weekdays 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (5 p.m. Mondays), Saturdays...
...When big money intersects with horse racing, however, even the most polished institution can get a little mud on its linen. The arrival of the Year of the Horse finds the Jockey Club bogged down in its worst gambling scandal in memory. Last month, two of the club's top jockeys, South African Robbie Fradd and Irishman John Egan, were called in for questioning in a race-fixing investigation conducted by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption. According to the ICAC, a four-month probe called Operation Green turned up evidence that racing professionals were providing inside information...
...elevation to a worldwide theme is crystallized in terms of Auschwitz. Scrawled on the walls are descriptions of SS officers killed by gypsy and Jewish inmates in a desperate attempt to alleviate their own insurmountable suffering. The silk-screened natural linen colored tablecloth that elegantly drapes over a simple table in the room’s center serves as a symbolic burial cloth of all those who have suffered, physically and emotionally. As the final connection, the Auschwitz portal inscription “Arbeit Macht Frei” / “Work sets you Free” is constructed...
Discussing press coverage of grade inflation in his final letter, dated this Feb. 1, he recalled a colleague’s comment at Oxford, “One can hardly hear oneself speak for the noise of clean linen being washed in public...