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Everyone talks about the lack of pitching but one oft-overlooked factor driving this run scoring and power explosion is the quirky character of the new ballparks in baseball. All the new "retro" parks are assymetrical in design and feature at least one short porch making it easy to hit homers...
...course, a cynic might dismiss the whole lot as blueprints for futuristic or retro college dormitory facilities across the nation: the pieces almost all resemble architectural scale models, with the grand, misguided feel of an architect's imagination gone amok Furthermore, the room used to exhibit the pieces seems inexplicably gloomy at times and is somewhat inconve niently catalogued...
...turning up in the form of trousers, shirts and belts from such hot young designers as Jill Stuart, Cynthia Rowley and the Morrissey Edmiston team. Stuart's new Ultrasuede "Fonda" dress is long gone from the racks of L.A.'s Fred Segal. But the material doesn't say retro to all. "The feel is casual elegance," explains handbag designer Kate Spade. "I don't look at my bags and think Rhoda...
...retro, was the general feeling, and possibly subject to unflattering misconstruals. Dole had used a contemporary writer whose best-known book, A Soldier of the Great War, featured much manly adventure, so Clinton could match him with Raymond Chandler's offering...
...vigorous, retro-'70s disaster movie, reminiscent of Airport or The Towering Inferno. Only this time the disaster is the end of the world. On July 2 in a near future year, humongous spaceships enter the Earth's atmosphere, hover over major cities around the globe, then send out a heat ray that pulverizes every urban center. Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Moscow--all barbecued. On July 3 the U.S. President (Bill Pullman) plots his counterattack with the aid of a computer genius (Jeff Goldblum), an Air Force pilot (Will Smith) and all their surviving relatives. By July...