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...appealingly awkward mix of influences. His clothes still have the homoerotic scent that marked his earlier collections, but the aroma is now more a celebration of the male form. Woven into this body-love is a hint of bookish geekiness, as if G.I. Joe had been given Gomer Pyle's soul. Or as Bartlett describes it: "Think the U.P.S. man meets Paul Bowles, Hello Sailor meets Hello Kitty, the Army Corps meets Lilly Pulitzer...
...Line: Emie Pyle-Loeb...
...Graham Greene often argued, innocence is like all other illusions, pleasant but dangerous. Children are not innocent. No one is innocent. Thinking that one is defies reality. Pyle, in Greene's The Quiet American, says innocents should wear little bells, like lepers, to warn others they are coming. He had in mind the Americans who thought we could succeed in Vietnam where the French, despite many years of knowledge about Indochinese culture, language and religion, had failed. That knowledge was Old World knowledge, compromising and corrupt. Like Jefferson Smith, we "did not pretend to know." But we brought clean hands...
...Cheyenne Pyle became famous last week, and the best part is that she'll never remember a bit of it. Early Sunday the 7-lb. 8-oz. girl was born at the University of Miami-Jackson Children's Hospital. Ninety minutes later, she was undergoing surgery to replace her underdeveloped heart, an operation that restored her to health and made her the world's youngest heart recipient...
...historic gold-rush country of Northern California, Lovetta Pyle has struck a vein of woe. Shortly after moving to the town of Sutter Creek, she learned that the gray "sand" that whole neighborhoods sit on is actually mine tailings, the grit left over after gold has been extracted from the ground. In those tailings is a toxic byproduct of the mining process: arsenic, in concentrations up to 50 times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage...