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Best-selling authors and trend spotters Marian Salzman and Ira Matathia, in their recent book, Next Now: Trends for the Future, call the phenomenon "inconspicuous consumption"?"shoppers who are buying discretely designer clothing that only insiders would recognize as such...
...fellows includes, “The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic,” “Homesickness for Things,” and “Weaving Christ’s Body: Clothing, Femininity, and Sexuality in the Marian Imagery of Byzantium”—this last one explores “the extensive use of spinning, weaving, and clothing as metaphors of Christ’s incarnation in Byzantine art and literature.” At Radcliffe, intellectual and administrative rigor is, apparently, not a prominent...
...Albert Finney seven years her junior - and the first Audrey co-star who seemed ready to treat her as a sex object. Yet to find someone whose roguish masculinity complemented her ethereal femininity, she would have to come out of retirement in 1976 for Sean Connery and Robin and Marian...
...American Chemistry Council (ACC), which represents manufacturers such as ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical, says the crackdowns on toys are not justified by the science. "The E.U. aims to ban products that show adverse effect at very high doses in rats," says the ACC's Marian Stanley. "Many essential products are made from starting materials that can be quite toxic at high doses. This does not mean that the final consumer products are toxic." As for recent phthalate studies on humans, she says, they are either preliminary or "overhyped." Meanwhile, toy companies are relying on a 2001 review by a Consumer...
...DIED. Marian Marsh, 93, starlet of 1930s Hollywood who, in her short-lived career, won acclaim for playing innocents-memorably the milkmaid turned diva Trilby in Svengali (tag line: "All Paris desired her but Svengali owned her!"), opposite John Barrymore; in Palm Desert, California...