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Move over, Martha. Get out of the way, Ralph. There’s a new girl in town (assuming that the term “girl” can refer to a 71 year-old girl-at-heart and “town” can refer to Palm Beach, Florida, one of the richest towns in the country), and her name is Lilly Pulitzer, creator of the brightly colored, Palm Beach clothing and lifestyle brand bearing her name. Lilly began her business in the late 60s, but today enjoys more buzz than ever as she whimsically prances barefoot into...
...Bradshaw along, molding her but also being molded by her "lovely quick hands." The speech in which she passionately defends her compliance ("no is misery and lonely nights") is but one of a half-dozen moments when the seemingly sparrow-sized Davis holds the 300-seat theater in the palm of her hand. It's spellbinding stuff. No doubt some will find argument with Barker's language (the c-word is used as freely as punctuation) and view of history (he's clearly no monarchist), but they won't see a livelier, more cantankerous production this year. Barker has said...
...high in April and foreign-currency reserves are the largest ever at $37 billion. The economy is growing at its fastest rate since 2000, fueled in part by China's soaring demand for commodities?the 17,000-island archipelago is rich in oil, natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, coal, palm oil and rubber. Global confidence in Indonesia's prospects has also improved somewhat. In March, the country successfully raised $1 billion in its first international sovereign-bond issue since the 1997 Asian crisis...
...favorite among literary societies and has met with dozens of them on his U.S. promotional tour for The Full Cupboard of Life (Pantheon; 198 pages), the most recent Ramotswe book, out this week. "I do 150 ladies at a time, at lunch," he says of gatherings he visited in Palm Springs, Calif.; Palm Beach, Fla.; and Las Vegas, to name a few. "Did you even know there was a Las Vegas literary society?" he asks, unleashing his delighted, high-pitched laugh...
...achieve its goalsno matter how honorable or correct its cause should have no voice, no credibility and no place in civilized society. Your reporting only reinforced the belief that Jewish blood is cheap, that anti-Semitism is valid and that Israel should quietly disappear into the sea. PAUL STEVENS Palm Beach...