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...customers are Japanese, and the percentage climbs to 65% at the company's Rodeo Drive outlet in Beverly Hills. Europeans, who make up one-third of the clientele at Stuart Limited, an upscale six-store men's clothing chain in the Miami area, snap up $75 silk shirts and $475 leather jackets so quickly that Owner Stuart Graver can barely keep the apparel in stock. Says Graver: "They just gobble those up each time we get an order." As creative director for a Paris advertising agency, Rene Fatton, 41, lives in the world's fashion capital, yet he buys clothes...
...play centered on conversations between the recently deceased and their living friends. The voices of Merrill, Doyle, and Hooten combined with dramatic lighting effects, a backdrop of dark colored trees on a silk screen, and the voice of an unseen spirit from backstage...
...psyche themselves for the race different rowers have different styles. "You go out quietly, put your boat in the water and hammer it down there. It's not like football, you know, where you yell and scream and bang your head on a locker," explained Hugh Silk, a freshman rower who will miss the remainder of the season because of a back injury...
Brown focuses on keeping its rate high. Harvard focuses on power, according to Silk. "The race was basically over when we took our standard power 20 just after the 1000 meter mark," Metz said...
...that the precocious boy first displayed his prodigious gift for things scientific, teaching himself the principles of the combustion engine and fixing the palace's generator whenever it went on the blink. To satisfy his insatiable curiosity about a world he was permitted to glimpse only through the silk-fringed curtains of his golden palanquin, the young ruler set up a projector by which he eagerly devoured Tarzan movies, Henry V and, best of all, home movies of his own capital. Often, he recalls, he would take a telescope onto the palace roof and wistfully gaze at the boys...