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Rachel Sweet is a baby-voiced comedian with jet-black hair piled high in a ponytail that makes her look like Pebbles Flintstone. She used to sing in a + new-wave rock band and now studies art history at Columbia University. But starting this week, she will be spending her evenings curled up on a sofa in a Manhattan TV studio, making wisecracks about the single life in New York City. Typical bit: Rachel charts the differences between a guy she dated named David Sims and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Has fancy cigarette holder. F.D.R.: yes. Sims: no. Tried...
Accessories in spots and stripes are big items as well. Marshall Field's in Chicago has a ponytail garter ($8) and a leopard-spotted headband ($10). At New York City's Saks Fifth Avenue a cheetah chiffon bow ($25 to $45) and a jaguar belt ($165) are moving well. Kids can get jungle-cat skirts ($30) and flannel dresses ($55) at Henri Bendel in Manhattan...
Even now she sometimes wears a ponytail, and age has only crispened that aquiline, no-nonsense visage. But in a game dominated by youth, Evert, 34, has become the matron saint. Entering this year's Open, which she said would be her adieu to the big time, she all but renounced any chance to win. She is being judged, and is judging herself, by a different standard: the grace of her departure. Like all great athletes, she has not so much succumbed to the ravages of time as allowed its passage to burnish her achievements into legend...
...Louvre Palace into the splendor of a 16th century courtyard. Across the cobblestones, as if for a medieval tournament, white tents opened their flaps to costumed crowds. Celebrities, fashion journalists and retailers from Kansas City to Kuwait milled about. Suddenly, without fanfare, a man in cut-off overalls, a ponytail and phosphorescent orange hightops strolled onto an enclosed runway and slowly spray-painted a huge red heart on a white backdrop. With the exaggerated staginess of a Looney Tune, he turned to the audience, pressed a finger to his lips, as if to say "Shhh!" and tiptoed out. Only then...
...long been proud of its thief-resistant pay telephone, boasting that the only way to break into it was to haul the whole contraption away and work on it with sledgehammers or explosives. According to the FBI, John Clark, 49, a former Ohio machinist who wears a shoulder-length ponytail and cowboy clothes, discovered otherwise. He is the only person known to have devised a tool that can pick pay-phone locks. It afforded him a comfortable, if itinerant, living. The FBI estimates that Clark, who sometimes used the alias Billy Bell, may have stolen as much as $1 million...