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...thing," Diana insists. But during the first year of her marriage, when she was assembling a royal wardrobe, her clothes and accessories reportedly cost about $2,500 a week. For trips abroad she plots her outfitting like a general drawing up plans for battle, studying the slick fashion magazines, then huddling with favorite designers. She also practices a kind of guerrilla shopping. Dressed in jeans, she will slip out of the palace by 10, driving her red Ford Sierra with the obligatory detective next to her, and head for a favorite boutique for a quick...
...there have been billionaires like Bunker Hunt and Michener's Quimper, who have lost more money in a year than Harvard spends. Yes, there have been slick, amazingly successful politicians like Lyndon Johnson or Michener's Ransom Rusk and ranches like the King ranch that are so big that it makes more sense to fly accross them than to drive. Texas and its history are full of people and things which shock non-Texans...
Harvard's offense--brilliant in spots--often sputtered because of the slick carpet. Crimson passes frequently flew past their targets by 10 feet or more...
...shoulders and declared, "I'm just a sign painter gone uppity." One may, with respect, demur. At 64, after decades of painting in the Bay Area, Thiebaud is one of the most gifted realist artists in America. At a time when so much new art leaves an iridescent slick of depletion on the eyeball, the group of 89 of his paintings and drawings, assembled by Curator Karen Tsujimoto at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is the real thing, a distinct and bracing pleasure...
...Cardinals, meanwhile, seemed more like the team showing pressure. Slick-fielding shortstop Ozzie Smith made an error that led to a run, and fan favorite Tito Landrum had a rough day. Landrum let runners move up to second and third on a flyout in the first, leading to one run; misplaying a fly ball into a double, leading to the game-winning run in the second; and letting another ball go over his head in the ninth for an RBI double...