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Little did I know that the biggest part of my job was braving the dust that had built up on our seldom-used stacks and filling several dozen trash bags with books to be pitched...
...Nomura Research Institute, predicts that Ford will have to invest an additional $1.5 billion to improve Jaguar's production, which would bring the total investment to $4 billion. "That is going to be very hard for Ford to recover in the marketplace," Lawson warns. But then, status symbols seldom come cheap...
...designer's main collection, called Donna Karan New York, is in demand among an elite crowd that seldom blinks at a $1,100 price tag for a cashmere blazer or $510 for a high-neck silk blouse. But it is Karan's more congenially priced DKNY wardrobe that has struck a popular chord. Among its current best sellers: plaid wool jackets ($395), denim jeans ($85) and merino-wool cardigans...
...when, in the 1932 film Shanghai Express, Marlene Dietrich drawled, "It too-oo-k more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily." Shanghai is no longer trendy, modern or even cosmopolitan, but its streets are still tops for infant watching. Sadly, though, the toddlers I see seldom cry or laugh or even suck their thumbs. Most seem sullen. And in the beautiful Jing an Park, which used to be a cemetery before the bodies were exhumed for cremation (the old story about the land's being too valuable for the dead), the kids ride around in bumper...
...black and they weren't playing funk. They didn't fit into a category." A black band romping in the white world of hard rock is an anomaly (or, as the promo men would say, a hard sell) even today. Musicians may cross over a lot, but radio stations seldom do. Vernon Reid, 31, who plays guitar with an ear on Hendrix and an eye on the Top Ten, recognized the problem early on. "Being black makes it tougher," he says. "It helped that we are a good band. But we had to be real good ; -- better than a white...