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...would expect a child-actor turned adult star would have an affected air and an inflated sense of self-worth. But Parker's down-to-earth manner and genuine modesty became apparent in the luncheon's posh setting. The actress handled the movie reviewers with solicitous finesse...

Author: By Coventry Edwards-pitt, | Title: `Rhapsody' at the Ritz | 2/2/1995 | See Source »

...vehicles onto the street below. The shaking, which began at 3:46 p.m. EST (5:46 a.m. in Japan) and lasted about 20 seconds, was also felt strongly 22 miles away in Osaka, Japan's second-largest city. Nearly 200 people were believed buried in rubble in Ashiya, a posh residential district between Kobe and Osaka. Japan's Cabinet was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on the disaster tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN . . . DEVASTATING QUAKE KILLS SCORES | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

Carnesale spoke at a terse and tense 15-minute press conference in the reading room of the posh Faculty Club. Reporters from newspapers and wire services across the country attended, and at least 10 television cameras were in the audience...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Rudenstine Takes Leave | 11/29/1994 | See Source »

...anything lacking in her line, Sander boldly asks retail buyers to make their orders ahead of the conventional schedule set by other designers. "It takes a lot of guts to ask buyers to buy out of season," says Debra Pearlstein Greenberg, an executive at Louis, Boston, the posh store that houses an expansive new Sander boutique. "It's amazing that she gets people to do this, but you go to her showroom, and everyone's there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Lessons in Lessness | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

Michael Huffingtonhas based much of his Senate campaign against Democratic incumbent Dianne Feinstein on combatting illegal immigration, but now he admits employing an illegal alien in his posh Santa Barbara home for five years. Early Wednesday -- right after he reaffirmed his support for the anti-illegal immigration Proposition 187 -- the GOP nominee was asked whether he'd had ever employed an illegal alien, a violation of federal law. His answer: no problem he knew of. But last night, the Huffington camp issued a terse confession -- plus a so-far unsupported accusation that Feinstein had done the same thing. The Huffington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALSO OUT WEST . . . GETTING HUFFY ON ILLEGAL ALIENS | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

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