Word: showing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swapped lives, wives, kids, dogs and bungalows in 1973 has baseball forecast such a sexy spring. Wade Boggs, the Boston Lothario, and the retired Padre Steve Garvey are proving that the movie Bull Durham, which featured only one Baseball Annie, was a little light on realism. In a stunning show of sportsmanship, Garvey's new bride has offered to adopt any children he has pending from two other relationships. Sensing that New York might be lagging in perdition, outfielder Rickey Henderson declared that the Yankees "were too drunk" last year to win the pennant...
...internationalist. Valentino's ready-to-wear has been on view in Paris for the past 14 years without attracting a commotion. Gigli is looking for an imprimatur, separating himself from the excellent elegances of Milan in 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...
There was also some suggestion around the Milan shows last week that Gigli had left in a bit of a huff, having lost a wrangle over a choice scheduling spot to Ferre, whose revenues ($390 million in 1988) currently carry a good deal more clout than Gigli's (under $10 million). "One day I just woke up and thought I'd like to show in Paris," shrugs Gigli, perhaps forgetting that Paris, for other Italian designers (like Simonetta), turned into a nightmare that left them disenfranchised, with no singular creative identity. "I shouldn't yet take all this for more...
...part, Valentino was playing the diplomat. "It's a great joy for me to show in Paris," he said. "I'll certainly still show in Rome, but couture is my metier, and I learned it in Paris. But I always keep my Italian accent when speaking French, and so do my clothes." By the time some State Department of Fashion has worked out all the coded signals and careful contradictions in that dispatch, the dust will have settled. There is always a lot of it around during fashion season anyway, especially when the clothes aren't good enough to clear...
...hostages are repeatedly threatened with death. Their meals consist of Arabic bread, foul-tasting cheese and tea. Buckley's treatment reveals the full cruelty of the kidnapers. He catches a bad cold that develops into pneumonia, but the guards show him no mercy. "Mr. Buckley is dying," Father Jenco pleads one day. "He is sick. He has dry heaves. Give us liquids...