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When designers were not selling sex, they were kissing babies. Altman should have been at Milan's Blumarine show when model Carla Bruni rolled a baby carriage containing another model down the runway. High-waisted baby-doll dresses, started by New York's Anna Sui last year, are ubiquitous in 1994. Even Giorgio Armani, who should know better, has one. Going along with the fake-innocent look are Peter Pan collars -- last seen on Mrs. Doubtfire -- that will be in the stores by fall...
That is not my only concern with the possibility of nominating a senator to the post of Supreme Court justice. I have a gripe against politicians sui generis (Latin and the law go well together) being nominated to our nation's highest court...
...used to be that while Las Vegas was unfailingly piquant and over the top, it was sui generis, its own highly peculiar self. Vegas in none of its various phases (ersatz Old West outpost in the 1930s and '40s, gangsters-meet- Hollywood high-life oasis in the '50s and '60s, uncool polyester dump in the '70s and early '80s) was really an accurate prism through which to regard the nation as a whole...
Fires in the Mirror portrayed a specific conflict between blacks and Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, a sui generis neighborhood of Brooklyn. Twilight, by contrast, is sprawling. It embraces complex social, economic and political issues. It concerns events that involved millions of people and captured attention around the world. It portrays perhaps the most diverse place in America and asks whether such a place -- such a purported model for the national future -- can survive. For every character onstage, Smith debriefed six more who didn't make the cut, including the mayor, Hollywood stars and a U.S. Senator...
...Vellucci could win a seat," conceded Dixon. "Al Vellucci is sui generis--one of a kind...