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Department-store officials do not expect Nipon's tax problems to hurt sales of his popular dresses. Observed Sonia Adler, editor of Washington Dossier, a monthly society magazine: "Most people who buy his clothes are not going to read about his tax problems in the papers." Nancy Reagan, however, is no longer among his customers. According to Sheila Tate, the First Lady's press secretary, "She had some Nipon outfits in her wardrobe back in the first year of the Administration, and she wore some of his clothes during the '80 campaign because they are easy...
Citizens' Party presidential candidate Sonia Johnson told an audience of about 40 at Radeliffe's Bunting Institute yesterday that if she were elected President, her first day in office she will announce a national emergency plan to eradicate the "conquistador mentality from our culture...
...enough to offset the heartbreak of racial insults and random attacks from young white thugs. The Ullahs and their children-Daughters Sonia, 15, Shazia, 14, and Samia, 10, and Son Sohail, 6-believe they are living a life under siege, and they have had enough. This year they are returning to Pakistan. "This country is not my home," declares Ismat Ullah, "but I have learned something here I'll value as long as I live: to work hard, to be tolerant and to fight and not give...
...Four as his last will and testament, a Swiftian condemnation of humanity, as some, including Connolly, have claimed ("He was a dying man and he knew it"). Muggeridge remembers his last conversation with Orwell: "He said, 'I have some more books to write.' " Soon afterward, he married Sonia Brownell, a beautiful woman 15 years his junior, in his hospital room. T.O. Fyvel, another friend, recalls Orwell's saying, "When one is married, one has more reason to live." He died three months later...
...favorites: Yamamoto, Armani, Ferré, Miyake. One also has one's diversions (Lagerfeld, Montana), one's objects of respectful admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion...