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...favor of the more experimental company in Paris. The intrepid Japanese designers show their stuff in Paris; so do the haut trendies like Jean-Paul Gaultier and Claude Montana. The company is faster there than in Milan, where Giorgio Armani, Italy's premier talent, casts a very long shadow indeed. "Presumptuous," is the way Armani characterizes Gigli's move, adding, "He may want to be international, but his move is premature...
...homophobia for the reaction to the questionable judgement of a gay student in making his sexual advances and to the questionable selection of a means of protest seems--if anything--to exacerbate tensions and paranoias on campus by trying to point to a monster when, at worst, only a shadow is visible here...
Clad in a white coat and cap, a sympathetic Gorbachev and his wife Raisa inspected the reopened facility, in the shadow of the entombed reactor No. 4, and stopped to ask the plant's staff about new safety measures. Gorbachev called the Chernobyl accident "very serious for the whole world," adding, "Through science and technology, we need to give energy to the nation, but safety remains the most important thing." Forty-eight hours later, the first ! unit of a twelve-year-old nuclear-power plant in Armenia was shut down. Under public pressure, authorities conceded that the operation...
LITTLE government action has been addressed to this fundamental problem. Washington Mayor Marion Barry recently mustered the energy to propose hiring more police officers to work in particularly dangerous neighborhoods. He has no urban renewal agenda. George Bush, meanwhile, is still in the shadow of Ronald "drugs are out of style in the U.S." Reagan, as evidenced by his budget's bias towards supply-side drug intervention...
Brownmiller attempts a novelist's overview, tracing the domestic tyrannies that slowly escalate to mutilation and death. But her squabbling adults have little more personality than Punch and Judy, and their maltreated daughter is a mere shadow. Waverly Place takes 294 pages to express what W.H. Auden did in a quatrain: "I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return...