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...just three years ago. Predictably, department stores are devoting more space to second collections. At the new Manhattan outpost of Galeries Lafayette, the French department-store chain, the shelves are stocked with French designers' second collections as well as more moderately priced labels such as Chantal Thomass and Lolita Lempicka. Bloomingdale's senior vice president Kal Ruttenstein reports that sales of the store's bridge lines are running 28% ahead of last year. Debt-laden retailers keenly appreciate that markdowns on bridge clothes typically run around 30%, according to retailing consultant Howard Davidowitz, while designer markdowns often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Why Chic Is Now Cheaper | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...Shelton (Bull Durham) directs Blaze with plenty of pungent wit, but from a high, disinterested view. He never gets steam into the affair. Paul Newman approaches Earl from the outside too, as a growly-bear clown who doesn't realize he's King Lear. Lolita Davidovich, making the most of her first big break, plays Blaze as a sensible, loving career gal with an overripe body. But the picture is not mainly about sex or even love; it is about an aging man's loss of sexual, political and personal power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time and the River | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...rebounds in a 49-48 loss to Lafayette and then tallied 34 points and snared 21 rebounds in a 68-65 loss to Cornell. No other Colgate player is averaging in double figures. Today's game may mark the season debut of 5-ft., 11-in. forward Lolita Paegle, who hails from Riga, Latvia, in the Soviet Union...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: W. Cagers To Host Tourney | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

This course covers "the mythos of love and its attendant social and sexual rituals as portrayed in some great works of literature during the past hundred years," according to the Summer School course catelogue. The reading list includes classics such as Nabokov's Lolita and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover--both the film and book versions...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: I Want My MTV | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

...interweaving of some of these themes, the webs of imagery, the elegant prose with its pricks of irony and cadences of poetry, all make The Enchanter a worthwhile read. Admittedly it is one of the author's lesser works, a weak prototype of Lolita...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: `Fire of My Loins'--With a Douse of Water | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

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