Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Friday night's show, entitled "Fashion Absolutely Boston," featured saggy models clothed in retro 80s suits, berets, taffeta boxers and slashed dresses. While many local art and design school students got an opportunity to demonstrate their imaginative designs at the show, their clothes were overwhelmed by Jamin 94.5's boisterous deejay and the atrocious decor of Avalon. The bright sequined dresses, disco-ball suit jackets and the polyester oriental carpet capes of "Fashion Absolutely Boston" were more reminiscent of Fabio and Bobby Brown than the latest from Versace and Marc Jocobs...
...last weekend's Head of the Charles regatta, for example, Fallows donned a full-size rabbit suit and passed out bumper stickers and T-shirts. "I looked stupid," said Fallows, "but people will remember...
...couldn't blame Microsoft's legal team for feeling a little cranky last week. Just as the lawyers prepped for opening arguments in their historic antitrust suit, word came through that their bid to force a pair of Harvard and M.I.T. professors to hand over taped, off-the-record interviews had been tossed out of a Boston court. What these tapes were said to contain had the software giant's people salivating: top executives at Netscape, their chief rival in the browser wars, were caught candidly admitting to strategic--perhaps fatal--business blunders. It would have been "the best evidence...
...heartbeat, or so the theory goes. But in the tradition-bound setting of a courtroom, such Clintonesque semantics--"It depends on what you mean by monopoly"--may be a tough act to swallow. David Boies, the Justice Department's chief counsel and a veteran of the old IBM antitrust suit, told TIME last week that he intends to ask everyone who testifies to stake his or her credibility on whether Windows constitutes a monopoly. "I doubt even [Microsoft's] witnesses will be able to keep a straight face," he says...
...Meanwhile, there's still the matter of an appeal. A cursory phone call from Clinton attorney Bob Bennett Sunday told Paula's lawyers that their last-minute offer of $2 million to settle the suit before it goes to appeal Tuesday had fallen flat in the White House. And Bennett also said his current $700,000 offer wouldn't be on the table forever. Jones herself, egged on by husband Steve and spokeswoman Susan Carpenter McMillan, had decided to up the ante and demand $1 million from both Clinton and New York parking lot magnate Abe Hirschfeld. Her lawyers argued...