Word: racks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midnight call to a journalist, urged him to rush down to Worth Avenue the next day and do an article on an unknown fashion designer named Lilly Pulitzer, who had come up with a colorful gown for casual wear. "They're tearing them off the rack, they tell me," said Kennedy. "Off the women...
...patronage and the social contract irk modern-day viewers. And the script deserves to be adopted as the acid-proof test for actors, directors and technical crew: It calls for snap transitions from jovial wedding festivities to ghoulish capering around severed heads to whiling the day away on the rack. Even with cast and crew in high gear, the audience has to work hard at suspending the old disbelief...
...take the Square out of Holyoke Center, take Holyoke Center out of the Square. If you look closely, you'll notice that the same old overpriced travel agency, the same old contraceptive dispensary and the same dusty books on the $1 rack at Harvard University Press are now part of The Shops at Harvard Yard. The renovation project has made the Holyoke Arcade less alienating to the shopper and the suburban daytripper, and infinitely more alienating to the countercultural mindtripper...
Even the cleaning of the cages will be strictly regulated. The racks will be washed on an exactly 180-degree rinse cycle, and all 3,500 cages will be cleaned twice a week. "You could drive a Toyota in there," Deegan says of the rack-washing room...
...good times in the Rockies are producing a distinctive old-and-new life- style laden with a backpack of paradoxes. Its trademark is no longer the pickup truck with rifle rack driven by a blue-collar hunter but the Jeep Cherokee or the Range Rover maneuvered by a young professional who more likely than not favors gun control. "I love it here in Denver," says Tom Bauer, 33, a Harvard-educated architect who left Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Los Angeles to try his hand at environment-sensitive design in Colorado. "Sure, I worry about urban problems like crime catching...