Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she took over the family business 20 years ago, Miuccia Prada came with an unusual pedigree. The dark-eyed Milanese was not only the scion to an 85-year-old family leather-goods business but also an active communist who dabbled in mime. An odd combination, perhaps, but evidently terrific preparation for the world of fashion, where Prada's mime-quiet minimalism has made her fashion house into the decade's most powerful design force...
...finds none. But he does discover a handful of tiny red dots on my torso, another sign of aging. "Hey, these things just happen," he says, and explains that as collagen, the matrix of supportive tissue under our surfaces becomes brittle, skin wrinkles and veins shoot off in odd directions. While flaking skin, itching, red spots and sun spots--sometimes called liver spots--are an inevitable part of aging, especially among light-skinned Caucasians, skin cancer is not. People who baked away on a beach during their youth are most prone to skin cancers 20 years later...
...Hancock Park, in a remodeled Spanish manse featuring a harem-inspired video room and a mammoth shower with their initials--A and E--intertwined in tile. While the town's tongues wagged last year, they decorated. "We looked at fabrics instead of tabloids," jokes Heche. "It's been an odd year. It has played itself out in every way--negative, positive, people supportive, people bitter--but we never wavered in our love...
...just have a weird voice and an odd personality...
...times, flashing SEX, GOSSIP, DEATH. His hunger for the machinery and trappings of fame thrust him beyond painting into filmmaking, with titles like Flesh and Trash; into music, fronting Lou Reed's rock band, the Velvet Underground; into publishing the gushing society organ Interview; even into the odd cameo appearance on TV. All these activities orbited the low-gravity center of the artist, with his blank stare and his wan voice that uttered such sibylline aphorisms as "I want to be a machine" and, most quoted of all, "In the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes...