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Nancy's favorite designers are Adolfo, Bill Blass and Galanos, whom she admires especially for what she calls their "simple, classical lines." She has a penchant for red, but almost all her clothes are colorful. In Adolfo's view, she projects "a chic, affluent way of looking, extremely sophisticated." Blass calls her style "crisp and fresh." According to Gale Hayman, co-owner of Giorgio's, a shop on Rodeo Drive where Mrs. Reagan has bought some of her clothes, she will be "very proper, very dignified, like Pat Nixon. But she will go a few steps further...
...Bowden's 33-year-old widow, Patricia, the case was not closed. Insisting that her husband was an innocent victim, she shopped for a lawyer willing to help her take on the police department and finally found Lawrence O'Donnell, 59, a onetime patrolman with a penchant for bold courtroom tactics and underdog clients (among them: three of the Brink's robbers). "He's a tiger," says one court official who has observed him over the years. "When he gets something in his teeth, he never lets go." For O'Donnell, Bowden's story...
Anyone with a penchant for genuine vodka will find the third sentence insipid. Shostakovich wrote the explanation after he composed the symphony in 1937, probably as an attempt to be restored to favor with Soviet officials after earlier compositions had been attached in Pravda. Unfortunately, most of Friday afternoon's audience, skewed as usual toward the elderly, probably took the composer at face value...
Despite the universality of interest in his death, Lennon remained chiefly the property-one might even be tempted to say prisoner-of his own generation. Some -those who regarded the Beatles as a benign cultural curiosity, and Lennon as some overmoneyed songwriter with a penchant for political pronouncements and personal excess-wondered what all the fuss was about and could not quite understand why some of the junior staff at the office would suddenly break into tears in the middle of the day. "A garden-variety Nobel prizewinner would not get this kind of treatment," said a teacher in Oxford...
...chummy, folksy sort with a penchant for apples and not always dazzling one-liners, Symms put steady pressure on his opponent, trying to smoke him out as a snake-in-the-grass liberal in a state where conservatives abound. Symms focused his attack on Church's dovishness on foreign affairs, his support of the Panama Canal treaties and his occasional kindly remarks about Fidel Castro. Said Symms: "I say we must keep our commitments to our friends. Church favors throwing our friends to the alligators and hopes they'll eat us last." Stressing that he was conducting...