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...other thing which irks me is that Coolspeak is so damned inappropriate here. Maybe Nerdspeak or Snobspeak, or even Paranoidspeak but not Coolspeak. Only about 10 people here are authentic blondes, and very few of them have either a tan or a surfboard. Consequently, when I see some pale, hairy organism loping out of the Science Center and telling some equally unfortunate companion about his "tubular" new vector conversion program, I am overcome by irony and grief...
Mary Beth Whitehead looked pale and shaken. Minutes before, New Jersey Family Court Judge Harvey Sorkow had denied her request to regain temporary custody of her five-month-old daughter. Surrounded by reporters and cameramen in the courthouse lobby in Hackensack last week, she told them in a trembling voice, "I have three children, and two of them cannot see their sister. I don't think that's fair...
Above all, Lauren is the boss. He huddles for most of the day with fashion assistants and corporate colleagues, at one moment expostulating before a trio of dark-suited subordinates and the next pondering an advertising display among a group of young designers clad in a palette of pale blue variations on his own favorite garb. Lauren pays his employees well and rewards loyalty, but he can be a blunt taskmaster. "He is absolutely terrible about hiding his feelings," says Buffy Birrittella, Polo/Ralph Lauren's vice president for advertising and communications. In an industry notorious for its creative egos, Lauren...
There will be no slave quarters to see; the last were torn down in the 1930s. But the pale yellow plantation house still stands, with its green shutters, 14 rooms and veranda and upstairs gallery extending the width of the 53-ft. front. Elsie Reeves Baum, 71, of Creswell, expects the day to swing from sad to happy as she and others walk among the ghosts of their forebears and the splendid cypress trees they planted. Says she: "They sang the same spirituals we sing. 'Steal Away to Jesus!' And 'All o' God's Chillun Got Shoes...
...entered the church. When the more than 2,000 onlookers grew noisy, Caroline hushed them with a finger to her lips. Thirty minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best Man John F. Kennedy Jr. blew his sister a kiss. Jackie, wearing a fitted, pale lime green sheath, bit her lip and struggled to hold back tears as she walked out of the church on the arm of Uncle Ted. He has walked other nieces down other aisles, and his avuncular presence is depended upon and appreciated. Still, one can safely guess that...