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...residents with multiple jobs, he's preoccupied with the poor economy. "People here are just worried about feeding themselves and having a job," he says. This comment draws nods from diners on nearby stools. It has been a long winter--they are always out here--and the white powder of most concern to locals is snow, not anthrax spores. "Not being able to pay my heating bills is my imminent threat," says Brian Williams, who waits the lunch shift. "I work three jobs and don't travel," he explains, "so I don't expect terrorism to affect me much...
...Patience Escalier - a gnarled Provençal peasant in bright blue, red and yellow against a vivid orange background - just as Van Gogh suggested it would, because his peasant's "sun-steeped, sunburned quality, tanned and weathered, would show up all that more effectively beside all that face powder and elegance." The exhibit has been elegantly arranged by interior designer Thierry Despont, including a replica of Van Gogh's small studio in the Yellow House in Arles, with his prized Japanese prints on the walls. Oddly, for a show dedicated to him, it seems a bit short on Van Goghs...
...Castigator. And the Rankins turn out to be a redoubtable clan. After a gang of armed men demanded to search her house for a runaway slave, the minister's wife Jean did not bat an eyelash. "If you do not hereafter keep away you will feel the force of powder and lead upon you," she told them. "If no one else would shoot you I would do it myself." Three cheers for muscular Christianity. --By Richard Lacayo
...pilot of the 1920s and '30s; in La Jolla, CALIF. The first woman to fly an all-night route, trout was the last surviving member of the inaugural All-Women's Transcontinental Air Race, from Santa Monica, Calif., to Cleveland, Ohio, IN 1929--an event Will Rogers dubbed "the Powder Puff Derby...
Then there are the gloves. Cobalt-colored TRUE BLUES may not sound like a luxury item, but the impenetrable, powder-free vinyl gloves are moving out of restaurant kitchens and onto stylish drainboards everywhere, even at $10 a pair...