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While fashion for most of the decade has been dominated by the spare chic of designers like Prada and Jil Sander, this season it finds itself in the midst of a full-scale romance revival, and women seem to be smitten. Minimalist Marc Jacobs is dabbling in pink and pleats. Tocca, a label specializing in girlish party dresses that began with a collection of 11 pieces in 1994, has evolved into a multimillion-dollar business. Jewelry is having a renaissance. "We're just all so tired of looking plain," notes Andrea Linett, a fashion writer at Harper's Bazaar...
...hour 50 minutes, The Spanish Prisoner clocks in as one of Mamet's longest works. Yet there are ellipses aplenty, in plot and dialogue, to tantalize and mystify the viewer. "I'm always trying to keep it spare," Mamet says. "Trudy Ship, the editor on my first films, said in editing, 'You start with a scalpel, and you end with a chainsaw.' I think that's true of writing too. For me the real division between a serious writer and an unserious one is whether they're willing...
Travelers who drive far enough into the parched interior of Australia, taking care to lug extra fuel, water and minor spare parts, enter a region of outback so distant and featureless that it lies beyond the reassuring certitude of maps. So says Australian novelist Janette Turner Hospital at the outset of her grim, millennial novel Oyster (Norton; 400 pages; $25.95). Such travelers--an Australian father, say, and an American stepmother, joining forces to track down backpacking adult children who had disappeared months before--would soon become disoriented. Even in their car they would be dazed by heat and a pervading...
...serious role (somehow he manages to look sillier in movies like Dead Poets Society than in movies like Jack,) this is the movie of the year. The screenplay respects the audience's sensibilities, the characters are multifaceted and intriguing, and of course, it has some great shots of the Spare Change man on Mass. Ave.--blatant Harvard propaganda at its best. Not only does it have the only "poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks meets high-spirited rich girl" story that matters this year, but it recognizes that intelligence comes in all forms...
...thinking of working for Spare Change," she explains, referring to the newspaper sold by homeless vendors, "but they only get 65 cents for each dollar they earn, and they're forced to work regular hours in an assigned spot...