Word: norma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most athletes admit that consideration of coach and teammates didn't play an important role in the decision to leave. Norma Barton, Ivy League swim champion in three events, says that for her, "It was easier to stop when I was on top. Maybe that's selfish, but I'd been swimming for a long time and had accomplished everything I could hope...
Nancy price came from California's Bay Area to see her son Tom race, and Norma Clark traveled from Columbia, Mo., to see her son Dave compete...
...Norma Steelbrook-Tentindo...
...Ruttenstein, fashion director at Bloomingdale's, observes: "Norma Kamali took an obvious American idiom and made it sophisticated fashion. The woman who used to wear a suit and blouse now wears her sweats." And Bergdorf Goodman's Executive Vice President Dawn Mello proclaims: "Norma is queen of the sweatshirt. It's like when jeans started. Norma is the new Levi Strauss...
Ironically, Kamali once looked with contempt at her present trade. "I thought being a designer was the most superficial goal anyone could have," she says. "It's not like finding a cure for cancer, or being an artist." A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1964, Norma Ar-raez's real goal was to be a painter. But not a starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick...