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Ralph Toledano, Chloe's CEO, took a gamble on Philo. When she was offered the top job, she was a rebellious, unknown assistant with a penchant for gold teeth, diamante-studded nails and hip-hop. Although many fashion insiders credited her street smarts for Chloe's success during McCartney's tenure, she was not an obvious choice to reinvent a 50-year-old brand that had not been a fashion must-have for the past 20. (Nor was she an obvious champion for the soft, romantic look she helped revive.) Philo herself seemed surprised, telling people she had been given...
...puts the grade-A material she gathered there to excellent use in the tale of Karen Jacobs, a young woman who leaves a dignified but dull job for a terrifying, exhausting--but occasionally glamorous--one at the fictional Glorious Pictures, where even the office dog gets its teeth bleached. The plot is gossamer thin, but the dirt is deep, dark and delicious...
...first break in al-Qahtani 's facade comes with a long-delayed call of nature. When a hunger strike he has launched fizzles, he starts refusing water. That becomes a battle of wills--and teeth. Al-Qahtani quickly becomes so dehydrated that medical corpsmen forcibly administer fluids by IV drip. He tries to fight them off with his hands and is restrained. Another time, al-Qahtani tries to rip the IV needle out; when he is cuffed to his chair, he turns his head and bites the IV line completely in two. He is then strapped down and given...
...turned and kept trudging up the steps, I clenched my teeth, and blinked my stinging eyes. It was the first time I had ever been jealous of my baby brother...
...Some of the news in the book is not new. Mao's womanizing, gourmandizing and peculiar personal habits?his aversion to bathing and teeth brushing, for instance?surfaced in the entertaining 1994 memoir by his physician Li Zhisui. Evidence of Mao's Machiavellian ruthlessness has been seeping out of China for years. Journalist Jasper Becker reported in his 1996 book Hungry Ghosts that China's granaries were bulging during the 1958-61 famine, the worst in history...