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...SPRAY THE MODELS! PATTI, COULD you get me some perfume?" Straight pins bristling from her mouth, safety pins stuck on the black cashmere sweater wrapped around her waist, designer Donna Karan is stalking the runway where she is about to present her spring collection to the fashion flock. She was up for most of the night, coping with the usual crises. The oversize linen hats, for instance. A nice theatrical touch, but they didn't fit through the entrance to the runway. (The models learned to take them off and put them back on, fast.) Then there was the jewelry...
Walker P. Allen '96, Ellie E. Malone '96 andLindsay H. Tomenson '96 of Holworthy 23 missed thesighting, but they tried their best to bring Shoreback with a sheet and a few cans of spray paint...
...Then, having in a sense created himself, he passed through an infancy surrounded by "mini dykes and fags" to puberty, when he "tried to use Noxzema to jerk off," to AIDS and the election of Ronald Reagan. By this time, he was spitting out his words in an angry spray of saliva that drifted over the first few rows of the audience...
...first week post-Andrew was chaotic as government agencies tried to coordinate with each other. Price gouging was rampant--$5 for a small bag of ice, for example. The national guard moved in to enforce a strict curfew and protect residences and businesses from looting. Spray-painted messages on homes such as "you loot, we'll shoot" were common, as were insurance company names and telephone numbers...
...dramatically reduced. Lever Bros., for instance, manufactures a superconcentrated powder laundry detergent in small boxes, saving the equivalent of 13 million plastic bottles a year. L & F Products sells its Lysol brand and other liquid cleaners in Smart Packs that take up 65% less landfill space than the jet-spray containers they are designed to refill. Imperial Chemical Industries of London has developed a plastic, soon to be distributed in the U.S., that biodegrades with or without exposure to air and sunlight...