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...from heading for cover, some members of the local organizing committee are donning sackcloth and ashes. "Obviously, we did break the rules," says Ken Bullock, an abashed organizer. "The Games are an aphrodisiac. If you want something bad enough, you stretch the boundaries." He points out, however, that the pressure on a bidding city to be hospitable can be intense, and Salt Lake City was hardly the first to gild its welcome mat. "The I.O.C. allowed this sucking up," says Bullock...
...that cozens people to give her CD a necessary second listen, it will be a smart move for both Colvin and her new audience. What's crucial is that the voice hasn't changed; instead of Morissette's sandpaper, Colvin has a silky sound that she wears like sackcloth to suit her pretty dirges. These songs, most of which she wrote with her producer, John Leventhal, still have the swank and cutting edge of Colvin's legendary cheekbones...
...Hollywood is, of course, different. There are stars, and then there are all those other people--actors. But occasionally stars want to prove their seriousness. Art stirs in their breast like an edifying influenza, and they take on roles outside their expected range. Falling prey to the lure of sackcloth and Oscars, normally glammed-up female stars don drab frocks, sport the no-makeup makeup look, play a character who opts for the spiritual over the sexual and, if possible, speak in an exotic accent. Hey, if it worked for Meryl...
...this marks a sea change from the sackcloth style of recent years. "The beginning of the '90s was a reaction against the glitz and conspicuous consumption of the '80s," says Valerie Steele, a professor of fashion history at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. "And you saw that in the 'Gapification' of America. Now there is a return to the status of fashion, luxury and quality." And how. Just ask Chanel, where women have reserved the company's entire new line of $750 khaki pants even though the Gap offers a comparable look for about...
...Greg were to come to this confessor, his penance would be 10 Hail Marys and an I.Q. test. As for Priest, it would be made to sit in sackcloth and ashes at the church door as a cautionary example to all filmmakers who truckle to noble sentiment...