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Even by the high standards of the fashion industry, the buzz about Tom Ford's next move reached a fever pitch early this spring. Rumor was that the celebrity designer--who over the course of a decade helped transform the Gucci Group from a $200 million purveyor of leather goods to a $3 billion luxury conglomerate--was being wooed to be creative director of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder. Would Ford be hired to revive its flagging eponymous brand (which has lately developed a somewhat dowdy aura, putting a damper on sales)? The New York Post claimed that Leonard Lauder...
...only to those who confidently predict the demise of every old technology the minute a new one comes along. Although radio was forced into the background by TV during the 1950s, the medium did not die; it merely took on new forms. As TV became the nation's main purveyor of mass entertainment, radio turned predominantly local and aimed to please smaller, more specific segments of the audience. The whole family might gather around the TV set at night, but people usually encountered radio in private moments--waking up in the morning, driving to work, getting ready for bed. Soon...
...Yamada maintains some traditions, however. About half of his wares are still produced from wood and natural urushi lacquer by craftsmen in the Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures beside the Sea of Japan, where the moist air creates ideal conditions for varnishing. Yamada Heiando also remains a purveyor of lacquer ware to the Imperial Household Agency. Does that mean Japan's royals will be trying out Yamada Heiando's newfangled goods, like its natty lacquer cuff links? "I'd like them to," Yamada says, "but it's not so easy." Commoners, on the other hand, can't get enough...
...Blue House, for one, called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council after the outcome became clear. Why the alarm? Because Pyongyang, Beijing and Seoul are all co-dependents in that great ongoing geostrategic A.A. meeting known as the "North Korean nuclear crisis." Dubya, meanwhile, is a confirmed purveyor of The Cure...
...festival. The most interesting part is how the forensic medicine, thought of as so cutting edge at the time, has been so picked up by modern media. During most of the film, one could almost be watching a flashback episode of CSI: Boston. A detective (fine Cordoban leather purveyor Ricardo Montalban) joins forces with a forensic scientist to find out exactly what happened during femme fatale Jan Sterling’s final trip to Cape Cod. The trip that ended in murder. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Brattle Theatre. 16 Brattle Street...