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...Harvard students see a fairly sanitized version of Cambridge each day; even with the homeless people and panhandlers in the Square, our surroundings are comfortably affluent. But Cambridge is not all quaint boutiques and swank restaurants...
...YEARS, GUCCI HAD BEEN descending from Riviera swank to Jersey gaud. Its overlicensed double-G appeared on everything from coffee mugs to ashtrays. Fake versions of its handbags were sold on urban street corners everywhere. Then, suddenly, it found a shoe that fit: a sexy, backless clodhopper that became the must-have of devotees of high style in 1993. Gucci went on a winning streak. By March 1995 its designer, Tom Ford, was electrifying the fashion world with a revival of '60s rebellion. Soon celebrities like Madonna were in head-to-toe Gucci. At the company's London boutique this...
Verhoeven and Eszterhas may have needed the R rating after all. When they made Basic Instinct--a sexy R movie--they deployed atmosphere and innuendo to complement Sharon Stone's swank star turn. Here, with an NC-17 rating, the lads go slack; they let pubic hair and menstruation jokes do all the work. Since their leading lady can't act or dance or dazzle the camera, they've got problems they apparently didn't want to solve...
...Tattered Cover in Denver, bumped its biography and cooking sections off the first floor last November to accommodate a gourmet snack bar where visitors down cannoli and blueberry cheesecake while they pore over the latest hardcovers. Earlier this month owner Joyce Meskis went a step further and opened a swank restaurant on the store's fourth floor, offering specialties like vegetable torta and grilled venison...
Biggest Hit: Batman Forever. It's got Jim Carrey as the Riddler (enough said). Plus sex, laughs, swank, acres of heavy leather-and a great logo...