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Shock. Amazement. And a nice side order of hauteur. Disorientation at first: Where's the runway? How about the front-row seat? No music? No lights? And ... no ... models...
...this world's a ready-to-wear runway. From early March, in Milan, through late March in Paris and ending just last week in New York City, the fashion corps turns up for the yearly ritual of checking out what's new for fall. The action they see, and, indeed, of which they become part, has the trappings of drama, the slow-motion choreography of a dream, the bleary musicality of an after-hours club at dawn. It also has the conviviality of a carnival, the commercialism of an appliance convention, the congenial corruption of a sideshow...
...Montana invite-comes suited up for the part, often in something made by the designer who is showing. About 45% of the audience are buyers, another 45% press and the remainder an overdressed congregation of friends, fans and fashion groupies. There is great mutual gawking across the runway, even during the shows. The runway makes a fragile border between celebrators and the celebrated that is meant to break at the end of the show, when the designer is led out by his corps of models for cheers and accolades. "It's the worst moment," reflects Gianni Versace, who showed...
...came to rest on Runway 22 at California's Edwards Air Force Base last week, the space shuttle Columbia looked a little travel-weary. In the orange glow of the early-morning desert sun, the ship's protective tiles showed pits and bruises. Dark streaks lined the fuselage, and a tire was flat, apparently worn down by the friction of a wheel that locked on landing. Casting a baleful eye on the craft that has logged 10.8 million miles on five voyages, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of NASA'S shuttle program, commented...
Business in a real sense. Astronaut Vance Brand, 51, had barely brought down the shuttle in a textbook landing-"painting the numbers on the runway," as pilots say-when other NASA hands began thinking of collecting the fees for Columbia's services. During the five-day mission, the shuttle had carried aloft two commercial communications satellites, one of them American, the other Canadian. NASA will earn more than $18 million for this orbital freight hauling, hardly enough to cover Columbia' s fuel bill, but a first small step in turning the shuttle into a self-supporting enterprise...