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After school, boys with tops appear on every corner, dressed without exception in white shirts, gray pants, and gray sweaters. Girls wear gray skirts. The uniforms are required by law in both private and public schools to reduce class distinctions among students. But by casting their tops into the dusty...
The designer leading the way is Japanese-born Kenzo Takada, 37. In his winter collection shown last April, Kenzo, as he calls himself, experimented with long, blousy sweaters meant to be worn over tights or leg warmers. Growing bolder this season, he has whipped up short gathered skirts topped with...
Bridgman, an independent film producer who watched the debate with New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett, pronounced herself "as baffled as before." On Carter: "He skirts around things." But she found Carter more personally appealing. She appreciated the fact that "Ford was a little more direct than Carter." Her expert...
Lhasa, "Place of the Gods," is two hours distant by car. The dirt approach road skirts willows and irrigated fields plowed by peasants steering teams of black yaks. The closer we came to Lhasa, the more Chinese faces we saw-and the more signs of the political fervor they brought...
A step at a time, we too moved up toward the hall, along with some of the other foreign diplomats and guests who had come to pay their last respects to Chairman Mao. All the world was there. Ahead of us were African women in colorful batik skirts; behind, a...