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...many mechanical tennis partners able to shoot practice balls at you every 3% seconds. Stores bulge with any or all of the several hundred tennis books now in print. (Sample title: How to Increase Your Net Value). Alluring fashion ads offer raiment ranging from the new see-through tennis dresses to maternity clothes for tennis-playing moms-to-be?along with some advice from doctors on why it is safe to play while pregnant. Also available are cute court togs for the baby ("the little lobber"). Tennis, in short, has become a billon-dollar-a-year business...
Many of the better law-enforcement organizations try to police themselves. The Los Angeles and Washington departments have strict guidelines for decoys on prostitute patrols. Plainclothes, for example, means plain indeed-no hot pants or see-through blouses. "The way some of our female officers dress, they look like they couldn't trap a bulldog with two pounds of hamburger," says one Washington cop. But Assistant Los Angeles City Attorney George Eskin concedes that some suggestive acts may not get reported: "The undercover female officer isn't going to say I winked at him and he responded...
...clothes are theatrical, even storybook: elaborate ruffles and sashes, billowing long skirts and dramatic dolman sleeves. For fabrics, Capraro favors see-through eyelets, misty flowered voiles, and chiffons. "Clothes," he says, "should be mysterious, sexy and feminine." He claims to be an "incurable romantic" and recalls that he has sat through Gone With the Wind 35 times (which hardly qualifies him as a romantic). He gets fashion inspirations from Impressionist art and some of his dresses could be (more or less) out of a Renoir painting...
...headquarters of Detroit's automakers, executive desk tops and coffee tables have lately sprouted plastic models of a strange-looking engine, and in high-level conversations around them, knowing mentions are made of something called an epitrochoid. Visitors soon learn that the models are see-through likenesses of the Wankel rotary engine-and an epitrochoid, in case they did not know, is the bloated figure-eight shape that its rotor follows when moving. Both the baubles and the vocabulary are just two more signs that the long-discussed Wankel has finally shifted up from being Detroit's vague...
JOHN PORTMAN, 47, architect. Made famous with his design for Atlanta's Regency Hyatt House, with its soaring 21-story lobby and see-through elevators, Portman has been the architect for $ 153 million in other Atlanta development, including the attractive Peachtree Center, a complex with vast business spaces imaginatively broken up by restaurants, sidewalk cafes and fountains. Now a multimillionaire, Portman was picked to design San Francisco's new Embarcadero Center, Detroit's $500 million waterfront renovation, and projects in Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Brussels...