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...swimwear business, manufacturers often survive about as long as a sand castle on the beach. Gottex, though, has made money for the past 15 years, and in 1984 it earned $4 million before taxes. It has prospered with a simple formula: sell sexy bathing suits and stake out the fashion end of the market...
...records and some TV programs, has often been a dumping ground for embarrassing job applicants. One such appointment surfaced last week. The tribunal's new head, Marianne Mele Hall, 34, appeared before a House subcommittee just after Broadcasting magazine had quoted parts of a book, Foundations of Sand, that she claimed to have co-authored. The book, written mainly by Lawrence Hafstad, a physicist and former vice president for research at General Motors, is filled with quirky racist observations. Many black men in U.S. ghettos "still hold to their African traditions," it says. "They insist on preserving their jungle freedoms...
...Wilhelmina agency told Vogue that the princess's New York trip was "indefinitely postponed," but Editor in Chief Grace Mirabella says, "I didn't get the feeling she was never coming." Rumors started to fly like sand gnats. Stephanie was suffering from exhaustion, or something even more dire, in a private hospital outside Paris; her father, Prince Rainier, had put his royal foot down right in the middle of the burgeoning career...
...hope not. If you are right, then we would have to ask ourselves whether or not we have been building on sand these past decades. I don't think so. When a hurricane suddenly comes up and threatens to destroy the landscape, I am not willing to accept the idea that what I have been doing and believed in for decades is wrong. What I have to do is everything necessary to contain the storm and protect myself. I know this is a difficult situation, but I am sure of myself...
...Mary Tyler Moore Show. Those programs forged new territory for TV comedy, in both style and subject matter. The Cosby Show, with its genial wholesomeness, harks back to old times. If any ground is being broken, it may just be TV comedy putting its head back into the sand...