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Cheap is O.K. by Starck, whose cheerful whimsy with juicers, bottle openers and hotel rooms did much to spark America's current fling with design. He says he wants good design to be a commodity--but without being wasteful. He points out that every time he designs a chair, it's less expensive than the one he designed before. "I want everybody to have the best products for the price of any bulls___ in the grocery store," he says...
...credentials on reaching out to minorities, in particular to Catholic Latinos in Texas. The members of Bush's senior team in Austin, Texas, were only vaguely aware of Bob Jones University's policies and past. "Reagan spoke there; President Bush spoke there; we didn't think this would spark a controversy," says a top Bush aide. And the speech wasn't much of a story--until the McCain camp worked overtime to make...
Aguilera is not only pioneering a different type of teen stardom but she may spark a new trend as well: reverse Latin crossover. Her father is from Ecuador and her mother is Irish American; they divorced when she was seven and, since then, she has had little contact with her dad. Lately she has grown more interested in her cultural heritage. Now that she's a mainstream star, she wants to be a Latin star too, and she's recording a Latin version of her debut CD. Says Rudy Perez, who is producing the project: "She sees Ricky [Martin...
...emerge from the stacks. Show Knowledge Boy the meager results of your porn search and allow him to peruse your selections. He will wish you luck with your pursuit of porn and send you off with a spark in his eyes, the kind of spark that tells you that perhaps Knowledge Boy knows something more than he is ready to share...
...Starks was always a kid on the Knicks; always Riley's spark plug and a good friend to the older, bigger Ewing. To my mother, with his round face and full smile, he was always "Johnny...