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...Getting our bikini on Kate Moss cut the average age of our customers 30 years in one fell swoop," said Rose Marie Bravo, the voluble American who has steered the British Burberry brand for the past four years. Call it a billion-dollar bikini. Analysts valued Burberry at $280 million this time last year. Burberry's ipo, which is set to launch in mid-2002, anticipates a value of as much as $2.8 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

...draft] hovered over the college like a bird of prey," documented the 1951 yearbook. "No one could mistake its shadow on the ground, but since it did not swoop down, everything below went on pretty much as normal...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Old College Try | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...bigger the airline, the heavier the weight. United, which is now the second-largest carrier (American's purchase of TWA made it top dog), could make whatever concessions the DOJ demands to make the merger fly, and then - considering the safety net of the judge's ruling for American - swoop back in after the deal closes and drive smaller rivals out with the kind of pricing hardball American has now officially gotten away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Bad Summer for United... | 5/31/2001 | See Source »

...against the takeover, because one of the men Putin has put in charge is an American, Boris Jordan. It's like he was trying to see how many toes he could tread on simultaneously. The Kremlin has alienated a number of different constituencies in one, not very fell swoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putin and NTV: Damned If He Does, Damned If He Doesn't | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

...success spoiled Mark Morris? Not even slightly. In his glorious production of Four Saints, the singers are relegated to the orchestra pit, while St. Teresa (Michelle Yard), St. Ignatius (John Heginbotham) and 12 "assorted saints" swoop, skip, strut and tango across the stage, bringing out all the fun in an opera that, since its 1934 premiere, has been embraced almost solely by devotees of the avant-garde. Skating atop Stein's nonsensical wordplay ("Once in a while and where and where around around is as sound and around"), Morris has created a heavenly playground full of beautiful saints who dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A Bad Boy Comes of Age | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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