Word: ralph
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...business that turns models into old women at 22 and increasingly ignores the customer who falls too far beyond Felicity's demographics is dominated in the U.S. by a trio nearing pension age. For much of the past two decades, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren have ruled American style. Although none will retire tomorrow, the triumvirate occupies so much space in department stores, on the sides of buses and consequently in the public consciousness that it has become tremendously difficult for young designers to break through. It says something about the contemporary American fashion scene that...
...Harvard, the glorification of what Ralph Waldo Emerson calls the "self-helping man" whom "all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire," blinds us to individual weakness. According to UHS, 15 percent of undergraduates use mental health services at least once during their college years. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, about 25 percent of all women and ten percent of all men will suffer from depression. But bravado makes us unwilling to acknowledge that. Consequently, students becomes less willing to share personal failures and listeners less willing to accept them...
...hear the whistle of the locomotive in the woods... Whew! Whew! Whew! How is real estate here in the swamp and wilderness? --Ralph Waldo Emerson...
GREAT LAMINATE: For those who crave more '50s than Happy Days can provide, Temple, Texas, offers the Ralph Sr. and Sunny Wilson House. Built in 1959 by Wilson-Art's founder to show just how versatile his product could be, the house put pink and aqua laminate where none had gone before. Open to the public, this homage to plastic has just become a National Landmark...
...Calixto said no one at Ralph Lauren ever "explained how it happened," but he expressed confidence that no similar dispute would arise in the future...