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KAPLAN'S MAIN GIFT is for capturing character through dialogue. Her children talk like children, but they are exceptionally aware; their most outstanding characteristic is their refusal to skirt the contradictions the adult world glides over with so much facility. For example, when Miriam's uncle tells her why she must stay at camp ("It's good for you to be outside and it's good for you to get used to it"), she answers him simply: "Why should I get used to it if I don't like it?" In fact, Kaplan's adults seem almost traditionally child-like...
...Ford's thrifty eye. "My clothes budget is not large," she cautioned Capraro on his first visit. To give him some idea of her taste, she pulled from her closets "a gray thing that I've loved." "Why, that's mine," said Capraro, recognizing a skirt-and-sweater outfit trimmed with feathers that he had designed while working for De la Renta. Delighted, Mrs. Ford selected twelve outfits from Capraro's regular spring line and also asked him to create five gowns for state dinners, using fabrics that the President had brought home from Japan. "There...
This month's issue makes the answer very clear. The communally run Ms. editorial staff must finally have decided just who its target-group should be. If the ad of the skinny young woman in her Danskin leotard and silk skirt that also recently ran in the New Yorker doesn't give it away, the articles on how to buy a sewing machine, or on Buffy Sainte-Marie, or the photographs of Andre Malraux and Jean Cocteau will. This magazine is for the wealthy, skinny, urban woman who probably has a job as well as a husband and household...
Flamboyant knee socks have been on sale for several years, but are now "in" as never before. The socks' success owes much to the recession, which has curbed clothing budgets; instead of buying a skirt, for example, many women are settling for snappy socks...
...colorful socks are made of wool or synthetics. They are most frequently worn with cork-soled, open-toed sandals or wedgies, usually to top-or bottom-off jeans or a flared skirt. The most ardent socks supporters seem to be teens and the under-30 set, who love the fun and pizazz of a flashy leg. In Ossining, N.Y., most of the high school girls wear the socks not only in the classroom, but with their gym shorts in physical education classes. They are equally popular in college. Says a Radcliffe student: "I feel bright and pepped up in loud...