Word: milan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mott Street in Little Italy, Manhattan's newest locus of hip, is where modish factions of the young professional class gather in cafes to talk about movies starring Steve Buscemi and to chain-smoke as though it were Milan or 1956. Mott Street is, in other words, a place you might envision as fashion's capital of spartan black. On a northern tip, though, sits a tiny 1 1/2-year-old shop named Calypso, where, on any given weekend, stylish young shoppers slither past one another to get at a collection of near-sheer pastel sweaters, lacy skirts, candy-colored coats...
...take-all, no matter how big the team or how small. Not now: Some geniuses decided that it would be more sporting to break the tourney into divisions, based on school size. David vs. David, Goliath vs. Goliath. No more Bobby Plump, whose buzzer-beater in 1954 gave tiny Milan High (enrollment 161) the state title and a hallowed place in local legend...
...Hoosier high school basketball is life itself to Indianans, Homer and the Bible together on the hardcourt. Milan High was their one true David. But now the great roundball Cinderellas all hail from Hollywood...
...used to have. Despite their relatively brief partnership, they have already won the Russian ice-dancing title and collected two silver medals at the world championships. This week they hope to glide ahead of the favorites. So fierce is the rivalry that at last month's European championships in Milan, the two pairs engaged in a game of intimidation during the warm-ups, whipping by each other so closely that costumes were torn by flashing skate blades...
...think it was the best Versace ever," said CNN's Elsa Klensch after the house's show of spring fashions last fall in Milan, "but for her it was a triumph." The "her" is Donatella Versace, a designer in her own right, who took over the company's creative reins in the wake of her brother Gianni's murder last July in Miami. In the opinion of most observers, the Milan show--as well as a show for Versace's Versus line the same week--proved the house is in capable hands, its visionary wedding of cheap sex appeal, expensive...