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...more exotic clothes: smocked leather samurai jackets, ballooning silk pants, kimono-inspired collars, obi sashes and details taken from ceremonial robes. "It's true I was influenced by Japan," says Armani. "But the real inspiration is born when you examine what you did last season and try to sharpen your focus, softening a line that was too rigid, changing a color that was too hard." As a former fabric designer, Armani starts every collection by putting together threads, colors and weaves in an innovative selection of materials. "He spends days just looking at fabric samples," says his business partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Look Out, Paris, It's Chic to Chic In Milan | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

...explain to the court what you individually did and why you did it." To pressure Dinnan to testify, Owens fined him $100 a day for 30 days, and then sentenced him to 90 days in jail. Faculty colleagues raised most of the $3,000 to pay the fine. To sharpen the issue, Dinnan wore his full academic robes when surrendering to begin his prison term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Growing Row over Peer Review | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...arrows at wealthy foundations and companies, many of which can always afford a plaque on a building at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. But now that it's getting time to elicit the $1000, $500, $100 and even $50 pledges, Harvard will have to sharpen its we-really-do-need-it arguments...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime... ...I Only Need $250 Million | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...arrows at wealthy foundations and companies, many of which can always afford a plaque on a building at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. But now that it's getting time to elicit the $1000, $500, $100 and even $50 pledges, Harvard will have to sharpen its we-really-do-need-it arguments...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime... ...I Only Need $250 Million | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...arrows at wealthy foundations and companies, many of which can always afford a plaque on a building at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. But now that it's getting time to elicit the $1000, $500, $100 and even $50 pledges, Harvard will have to sharpen its we-really-do-need-it arguments...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime... ...I Only Need $250 Million | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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