Word: minke
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...Homer’s masterpiece, “Mink Pond,” will be featured in the upcoming show. “This is Homer at his best,” said co-curator Anderson. “The level of detail is so crisp, but it is also expressive, personal, and charming...
...even if Scene retracted its claim to diversity, and eliminated all of its entrenched classism, it would still a proponent of wearing an oxford shirt without pants, sporting “dangerous” ties at the Westminster Dog Show, and wearing black T-shirts with mink collars, which is something I simply cannot abide by.—Staff writer Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...
...moment. In 1870 in Paris, Mendel's great-great-grandfather launched a line of furs prized by Russian aristocracy. But in 1995, when Mendel opened the first J. Mendel outpost in New York City, the fur industry was under siege from animal-rights activists, and women who donned a mink in midtown Manhattan risked being pelted with red paint. To protect the windows of his Madison Avenue store from being smashed overnight, Mendel took the fur coats off the mannequins and designed dresses to cover them until the store opened the next...
...like a diamond cutter,? he says. ?He excelled at what he did, but it didn't have any connection to the outside world.? Gilles created coats in which he sheared off all the hair so that they felt and looked like cashmere; he cut swaths of mink into pieces and sewed them back together in loose, fragile strips that offered neither bulk nor insulation. ?I was the only furrier who sold fur that didn't keep you warm,? he says...
...case that broke open last week was only the first chapter in an extensive clampdown on drug dealing in the financial community. Authorities initially picked up the trail in Brooklyn, where they took notice of a mink- coated brunet named Theresa Masi. A known consort of drug dealers with Mafia connections, Masi made regular rounds of Wall Street executive suites. Authorities learned that Masi was delivering cocaine weekly to five top-level * managers. Under a law-enforcement policy to charge dealers only, those users were never prosecuted, but their descriptions of drug consumption on Wall Street inspired the U.S. Drug...