Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arsenio Hall, at the same moment, has no inkling of the earthquake either. (The news reaches him later, midway through the show, though he doesn't mention it on the air.) With minutes to go before his 5:15 deadline, he is in his dressing room, slipping into a stylish double-breasted jacket, glancing briefly at his cue cards and getting some final dabs of makeup. With only seconds to spare, he bops downstairs, wades through a phalanx of enthusiastic staffers, then darts behind a blue translucent curtain. The band blares, the announcer wails. Hall sinks to one knee...
Karan, 41, has earned a reputation as the sartorial savior of the modern working woman who is fed up with floppy bow ties and sexless designs. Karan's clothes are comfortable and practical, stylish and feminine. Among her trademarks: one-piece silk bodysuits, easy-fitting jackets, wrap skirts. Fashion doyen John Fairchild, publisher of Women's Wear Daily, lauds Karan as the most important American designer. Says he: "Donna understands a woman's body the way Coco Chanel did." A size 12 herself, Karan boasts the rare and eternally marketable talent of cutting a skirt or a pair of pants...
...course, with an estimated net worth of $5 billion, Mobuto finds it easy to be stylish and graceful. (Coincidentally, Zaire's national debt is about $5 billion. Funny, that...
...catalog offers stylish variations on some familiar themes in American sportswear. Besides selling a garden-variety pocket T shirt ($12), J. Crew offers a prewashed (or "weathered," as the catalog puts it) T shirt for $24 in 15 different colors, including watermelon, tangelo and mango. Other characteristic items: Shaker cotton sweaters ($38) and unlined canvas jackets ($68). This year J. Crew is branching into clothes for the office as well. Fall offerings will include a wool V-neck dress ($128) and a men's herringbone-tweed jacket (about...
...than Rosenzweig. Among her classic dishes: chimney-smoked lobster glossed with tarragon butter and buttressed against a crisp cake of threadlike Chinese noodles; roast quail with rhubarb bedded down on dandelion greens; and homespun corn cakes topped with caviar and creme fraiche. Similarly, Joyce Goldstein, chef-owner of the stylish Square One in San Francisco, creates an aura of flavor unity on a menu that may offer crusty Italian bread, Russian mushroom soup, pungent Korean steak and a very American spiced persimmon pudding...