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...Saturday afternoon, Henderson joins another Atlanta image consultant, Susan Bixler, in a corporate presentation. It is an afternoon of admonitions: "Don't buy a shirt that's whiter than your teeth . . . Do not purchase 100% linen for business because you will look like an unmade bed by 10 a.m. . . . Accept baldness . . . Don't try to wrap your hair around your head and spray it in place like a helmet...
...from two different colleges -- say, Harvard and Hard Knocks. But they are both feds in a bad town, and they know what smells. The sheriff, for one. "You down here to help us solve our nigger problem?" he asks agreeably. No. They are there to wash some soiled linen: the bloodstained sheets of the local Klansmen, who almost certainly executed the young men for the crime of idealism...
...pilgrimage to the Fifth Avenue headquarters of Estee Lauder, which hopes to open a Moscow shop soon, and left smelling as if she had run a gauntlet of aggressive salesclerks on the first floor of Macy's. The empress-dowager of cosmetics first splashed Raisa with White Linen, then doused her with Beautiful, despite the protest "I have too much on already...
...designer's personal style as well. Moore proffers the pastel colors of the English garden in her pale pink skirts and sweaters. Taylor is known for undergarments, ranging from emerald green chemises to fuchsia-toned satin slips, which are sold in a boutique filled with Victorian-inspired lace and linen. What shoppers might be surprised to find out, though, is that these designers do not exist. Macy's has concocted these tony names for its own house brands. Private labels, as they are called in the industry, are manufactured by retailers and sold exclusively in their own department stores...
Since the Middle Ages multitudes have believed that a piece of linen enshrined in Turin, Italy, is the burial shroud that Jesus Christ left in the tomb when he rose from the grave. But last week Turin's Anastasio Cardinal Ballestrero calmly announced that scientific testing proves the yellowing 14- ft.-long fabric is only six or seven centuries old and could not have dated from the time of Jesus. Thus ended the most intense scientific study ever conducted on a Christian relic...