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Crossing the Legs: To cross or not to cross. Farrell learned the rule from her Catholic mother: "Modest women, if they must cross their legs at all, cross at their ankles and never at the knees." And if you wear a dress or skirt, "when you try to cross your legs, the dress goes halfway up your...
...Ready to Wear" has the seductive, glamorous charm of that infamous Christian LaCroix "pouf" skirt. It looks like it's to die for, but you won't want to be entangled in its frothy net for more than ten minutes...
...love triangle involving a murder, stakeout, sentencing and jailing, but all of it is done in a tongue in cheek way. Each character is a subversive look at a stereotype. In examining such molds as the Kelly girl, the private detective, the codependent lover, the bobby socks-poodle skirt blonde, Hughes also assesses such images and then creates new ones. Accents and body language are mixed and transferred by the skilled actors. The subtext is continually brought to the surface and reconciled with the text or else dismissed, but in this case Hughes is responsible for everything she writes...
...Congress ever gets really serious about that issue, it will have to tackle the spiraling cost of entitlement programs -- and that would mean gutting the farm subsidies Daschle has championed throughout his career. "Even if we skirt entitlements generally," explains a Democratic Senator, "at some point early on, the Republicans will seek to pay for the capital- gains tax cut they want by reducing Medicare payments. That will be the time to offer our counter: a cut in farm subsidies." Daschle says he "knows that everything has to be on the table, including farm programs," a stance that provokes laughter...
...crowded and yet sustains a pleasant, middle-class life- style; the idea that most Amazon Indians would rather move out of the rain forest; a description of Thoreau as a "sanctimonius beatnik." Still, O'Rourke is funny. In the Amazon he encounters one Yagua Indian with a grass skirt so elaborate that "he was lucky he hadn't been declared an endangered ecosystem from the waist down...