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...bore down, forcing Wallin to pop up to third. He got Connelly to hit a ground ball for an out at the plate. And then he threw strikes--three of them past Eagle outfielder Mike Kopfler to escape from...
Kelly's story has a mythic quality: fairy godparents pop up at the right time, dark perils lead to happy endings. An old friend from Atlanta, model Pat Cleveland, ran into him on the street. She suggested Paris and, unasked, sent him a one-way ticket. The Warnaco deal had the same Kellyesque serendipity. Three years ago, Kelly was free-lancing while building his own label. "If we'd have sneezed, we'd have gone bankrupt," he remembers. Enter journalist Gloria Steinem on assignment to do a profile about Kelly for NBC's Today show. Steinem introduced Kelly to Warnaco...
From jazz to Jerry Lewis, American pop culture has often found a welcome audience in France. But nothing could have prepared the French for the latest U.S. export: Les Crados (The Dirty Ones), the Gallic edition of those Stateside sensations, the Garbage Pail Kids. A gruesome gallery of children's bubble-gum cards, Les Crados include such characters as Mathieu Degueu (Matthew Nosepicker), Herve W.C. (Toilet-Face Herve) and Laetitia Pus-de- Bras (Stinky-Pit Letitia...
...early '60s, like Mimmo Rotella, lack the bluntness of their American counterparts. Rotella's Marilyn, 1962, a torn poster "found" and peeled from the wall, is partly about abstract expressionist gesture, partly about the ruin of images by time, and not in the least concerned with the shiny newness Pop art liked...
...alone." Clay Center citizens care about one another, and about outsiders too. The 55-member Rotary Club has raised $30,000 in three years to help administer polio vaccinations around the world. In short, this should be an idyllic place to live. Yet something is wrong here. Clay Center (pop. 4,700) has lost hundreds of jobs in the past decade, which has prompted an exodus of its young people. In all of Clay County, for which the town serves as county seat, the number of deaths (1,000) since 1980 has substantially outnumbered births...