Word: millstein
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Designers got the message the hard way. Those urban ranks of briefcase- toting women in their boxy suits and string ties really did mean business. "For the first time, working women have voted with their pocketbooks," says Alan Millstein, publisher of the Fashion Network Report, an industry newsletter. "No serious executive female wants to look like Tina Turner when she goes to work." Millstein is among several commentators who point the finger at Women's Wear Daily Editorial Director John Fairchild, perhaps the most powerful voice in American fashion, especially among buyers, for pushing the short length too hard. Ordinarily...
...mini's failure has been a real financial chiller. "The guts of the market is daytime wear," says Neal Fox, president of the Washington-area Garfinckels stores. Abandoned skirts at hefty reductions off the original price twirl idly on sales racks at Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue. According to Millstein, the industry lost billions in markdowns. U.S. Commerce Department figures indicate that sales of women's clothes in February dropped 3.6% from the year before...
Despite the court's effort to state a narrow conclusion, its decision generated apocalyptic pronouncements of approval and criticism. The ruling, cheered Ira Millstein of the American Jewish Congress, gives "no aid or succor to anyone who wants prayer in the public schools." Agreeing with that analysis but not the result, Republican Governor John Ashcroft of Missouri, a born-again Christian, denounced the court for its "phobic response to the six-letter word prayer." Conservative Activist Paul Weyrich, recalling earlier obscenity cases, objected, "It means the f-word is protected, but you still can't think God." Cried Michigan State...
...Beat Generation' was born disillusioned it takes for granter, the imminence of war, the barrenness of politics and the hostility of the rest of society, said The New York Times's Gilbert Millstein in 1957. The difference between now and then is that in 1984 there is less physical room for a counter culture to flourish, and that we are more cynical than disillusioned. Twenty-five years ago, the Beats could still assert the validity of mystical experience as a refuge: these days, mystics are regarded as nuts...
...argument about a "Jewish taqiya" is unfounded and his criticisms of Israel are overly broad and unsubstantiated. Still there are quite valid reason to criticize Israeli government policy and such criticisms are being made. Let us hope that a "Jewish taqiya" will never come into existence. Jordan B. Millstein...