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...name. In the showroom, armed with order forms, style books, color charts, the buyers, with occasional encouragement and sweet talk from the designers, start to act just like serious shoppers. They pull clothes off racks, hold them up, try them on. Armani's definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts; his loose, liquid, wool jumpsuits; his jackets with turned-down lapels; his heart-stopping evening wear... heaven on a hanger! Claude Montana's huge coats in electroshock colors; Yohji Yamamoto's sweaters in colors like a deep-sea bottom! Saint Laurent's peerless pants...
...take the overall readings. The median income of blacks is only 55% that of whites. Black unemployment is, as usual, twice that for whites. Many black families are stable, but more than half of black babies are born to unwed mothers. The lives of American blacks are sicklier and shorter than those of whites...
...write about politics as if he were a critic-reviewing a book or play. Thereafter, diffident and a bit owlish, the critic plied the provinces with nearly every would-be President from Thomas Dewey to Jimmy Carter. Rovere also found time to write eight nonfiction books and countless shorter works, most notably a straight-faced 1961 article for American Scholar on the existence of an "American Establishment," a spoof so successful that scholars began debating the subject seriously...
According to A Simone Reagor, director of Harvard's office of sponsored research, the changes will result in reduced paperwork for scientists and shorter waits for government grant approval...
Junior Scott Alpert, who will replace Ross in the starting lineup is a full five inches shorter than his classmate. Both Alpert and senior Co-captain David Twite, last year's Ivy MVP, have been plagued with the flu all week...