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...collectively rhapsodize over a new clothing collection by Patrick Robinson for Target. "I want to order a few things," one editor blithely declared while admiring a rakish pleated dress with chocolate medallion print that will sell for $34.99 when it arrives in stores in May. Her Astrakhan coat and patent-leather boots might have been wildly expensive, but few?not even style arbiters?can resist the allure of fast fashion...
...with Lucite and silver plaque ($950, gucci.com) Opposite page, from top: Belle by Sigerson Morrison silver bow flat ($260, sigersonmorrison.com) Roger Vivier Ballerine Chips ($525, 212-861-5371); Sigerson Morrison perforated flat ($345, sigersonmorrison.com) Bally Lumia ($295, bally.com) Ralph Lauren Collection Brigita skimmer ($395, polo.com) Oscar de la Renta patent runway flat ($450, Oscar de la Renta boutiques...
...small or large quantities of their time and expertise isn't necessarily great at generating the original and the unique, but it's very good for improving existing products (like software) and bringing together dispersed information (Wikipedia). Often better, in Benkler's telling, than corporations armed with copyright and patent laws...
...will defend himself by relentlessly attacking him. But the lone victim is a clever cuss, and succeeds in wiping out all of his pursuers save Carver. The fleeing and fighting is intermittently interesting, but one is more interested, frankly, in why Anjelica Huston suddenly intrudes on the film, selling patent medicine and vague spirituality. Also in why the near-moribund western genre suddenly reappears in this rather austere, if handsomely mounted, form. It is the kind of movie that gets you thinking not so much about its ostensible subject, but about how difficult it must have been for director...
Educational toy: How many models does it take to patent a tool for helping kids learn their letters? Just one, actually. Brinkley did it in 1991, when her daughter with Billy Joel was 5 years old. Heidi Klum, perhaps you could tackle learning colors...