Word: marination
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have an American smartness and good sense about them without being dowdy or frumpy. His fall '98 collection featured intricately beaded gowns, skirts and tops, often paired with a coat or sweater of the same color in a softer fabric. It's a look in which almost anyone shines. Marin Hopper, fashion director of Elle, thinks Duke has it all sewn up. "He understands both worlds of really wanting to bare your soul on one hand," she says, "and on the other to have a silhouette that shows your curves but not all your skin...
...John Marin's Movement, Fifth Avenue...
...felt at the rapid change of their society under the pressure of immigration--"Ellis Island art." But early American Modernists were concerned, sometimes obsessed, with rendering peculiarly American experience. Charles Demuth (1883-1935) was fascinated by the blaring contrasts of signs and numbers on the new urban surface; John Marin (1870-1953) believed that "you cannot create a work of art unless the things you behold respond to something within you...Thus the whole city is alive." Of course, the greatest Modernist work of art in New York was the city itself: its impaction, strangeness, clamorous variety and scary dynamism...
...return to news. He has been asked by the NBC affiliate in Chicago to do commentary. But to the two news anchors, sharing a show with the unabashed chronicler of America's most tawdry domestic dramas was like being asked to drink battery acid. On Thursday night, Carol Marin resigned on the air. "This isn't about one television newscast in one city," she says. "It's about the heart and soul of news." Ron Magers, her co-anchor, is still considering his options. Springer, who sees bigger fights than this on his show all the time, is unperturbed...
...tradition of Bonnie Parker, more women are getting in on the act: a solo female robber terrorized banks in Marin County, California, in late 1996; last month in Maryland, a 14-year-old girl under suspension from school was recorded by a bank camera claiming to have a weapon and ordering the tellers to "just do it." And in a string of heists in several states, a mother sat calmly with her three-month-old baby daughter listening to the police monitor while her husband robbed banks...