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...newspapers. It took him a couple of years, but by 1979's Back in Your Life, he had snapped out of it, and he now plays a fusion of his two previous styles. A song on his new album, I'm So Confused, is called "The Lonely Little Thrift Store," but this thrift store sells "avocado green appliances/with the smell of domestic violences...
Once you decide to retire early, change your life-style to meet your new circumstances. In other words, cut back. This can mean using coupons at the supermarket, eating dinner at home instead of going to a restaurant, and buying some clothes at thrift shops, says Marc Eisenson, co-author of the new financial-management guide Invest in Yourself (John Wiley & Sons; $22.95). This also means cutting back on debt by paying off mortgages, winding down car payments and paying off credit-card bills. "The less debt you have, the more freedom you have," Eisenson says. "You don't have...
...probably imagine the clash when Waters brings Pecker's blue-collar subjects together with his chic discoverers. Much more fun--as always in Waters' genially transgressive movies--are the rich portrayals of his fellow Baltimoreans, among them Christina Ricci's Laundromat Nazi, Mary Kay Place's fashion-forward thrift-shop owner and Jean Schertler's goofy grandma using a statue of the Virgin Mary to practice some pious ventriloquism. Check...
After graduation in 1995, McCartney launched her own small line in London, building it almost entirely around sensuous collections of lingerie-modeled dresses and swingy silk skirts. "My mom always collected thrift-shop stuff--especially Italian slips," McCartney recalls. "I've always loved underwear and antique fabrics and lace for all their soft texture." Her famous surname did inevitably create buzz. Supermodel friends wore her clothes, and before long, a McCartney frock became a must-have item for the in vogue everywhere...
...Wall Street Journal article on the 1980s influx of Vietnamese refugees, Ellen Hume hails the group's uncanny ability to climb the socioeconomic ladder. What explains their success? "The values they come with-- a dedication to family, education and thrift...