Word: prada
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...Fruits, Veggies and Vuitton Re "Paper, Plastic or Prada?" [Aug. 27]: New Delhi has banned thin plastic bags, but thicker plastic bags abound and are choking drains and rivers. Politicians with a vested interest in the plastic-bag industry will never allow a complete ban. Sourendra Kumar, Ghaziabad, India...
Fruits, Veggies and Vuitton Re "Paper, Plastic or Prada?" [Aug. 27]: New Delhi has banned thin plastic bags, but thicker plastic bags abound and are choking drains and rivers. Politicians with a vested interest in the plastic-bag industry will never allow a complete ban. Sourendra Kumar, GHAZIABAD, INDIA...
...Name 10 American female celebrities with gray hair. Umm ... Meryl Streep. But only in character and only occasionally, such as in The Devil Wears Prada. O.K., how about Emmylou Harris and Jamie Lee Curtis ... and that woman on the Food Network, Paula Dean, and ... and ... O.K., but that's show business. Surely there are nationally famous gray-haired women in more workaday fields, in business and politics and the professions? Uhhh ... Barbara Bush? In fact, we have almost no high-profile, female, gray-haired role models...
...Weitz suggests that because baby boomers represent such a large segment of the population, even though the fraction of gray-haired women who don't dye is relatively small, the absolute numbers will lead to a perception of far more women going gray. "Miranda Priestly, Streep's Prada character, would not have had chic white hair," according to Weitz, "if so many boomer women were not already doing it." Leading-edge boomers' cultural influence has been disproportionate for nearly a half-century, and there's no reason it should stop...
Rebecca Ruck Dunn and her husband moved to Minturn from Vail two years ago. The big draw: they could buy a single-family home for the $500,000 they'd pay for a condo at the Prada end of the valley, where Range Rovers and $3 million villas outnumber cattle and sheep. Growth, Dunn wistfully notes, is inevitable. "But," she adds, "I hope we can grow gracefully. There are resort towns that were in the position Minturn is in now. It makes sense to learn from their successes as well as their mistakes. I'd like to see an effort...