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...conspirators. H&M has Madonna. Kohl's has engaged Vera Wang to produce an affordable line. Gap boasts dresses by Roland Mouret. Meanwhile, across the pond, Topshop has enlisted the taste and services of style icon Kate Moss. The upshot? Masstige has emerged as the look of the moment???arguably the biggest trend in fashion...
...tough and unsettling recollection of the breakup of his parents' marriage and of how he walked out on that wreckage to launch his own career. The play's central image, its emotional climax, is that long-contemplated connection of mother and son, talking and dancing and?for just a moment???spiritually touching. "Until I wrote it," says Simon, "I had not fully resolved how I truly felt about my mother. I had no idea I had been so dependent on her. That is an erotic, truly intimate love scene...
...Hanks remembers the precise moment??the moon made his head explode--or at least that's how he describes it. It was December 1972, and Hanks ran home from school to see the transmissions that the Apollo 17 astronauts were beaming back live from the surface of the moon. "There was no lunar module in sight," Hanks says. "All you could see were the astronauts in the distance as the camera panned around this incredibly alien, incredibly desolate place. I was just gone...
Such are the jolting contrasts that make the U.S. economy a puzzling picture at the moment???as, indeed, it has been during most of Jimmy Carter's first year in the White House. To the public at large as well as to economists and businessmen, the contradictions appear to mirror an equally mixed-up management of the economy by the Carter Administration. Policy zigged from talking up a tough tax reform to abandoning most of it, zagged from professing unconcern about the dollar's slide to intervening actively in currency markets to prop up the greenback. Noting Carter's propensity...
Descending the El Al ramp, Sadat was greeted warmly by President Ephraim Katzir and Premier Menachem Begin. "Thank you," said Sadat as he shook hands. Answered Begin: "You are welcome. Thank you for coming to visit us." Never before had the Middle East witnessed such a moment???the first visit ever of an Arab leader to the Jewish state?and Israelis could scarcely believe what they were seeing. Egypt has been an implacable enemy in four bitter Arab-Israeli wars that have cost countless thousands of lives and casualties on both sides, yet there was Anwar Sadat standing solemnly...