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Life must be sweet to Emilio Pucci. There can be few satisfactions more pleasing to a designer than to savor success twice, to lead fashion's promenade after years on the shelf. A quarter-century ago, Pucci introduced bodysuits in vivid geometric patterns. They became a chic international uniform for several years and then, inevitably, were castigated as cliches. Fortunately for Pucci, fashion repeats itself. Thus, lively hosiery has become the rage of 1990, and the grand old Florentine marchese, who began his career by running up slinky playclothes for his girlfriends, may be out of stock before the summer...
...Hate Crimes Statistics Act is already caught up in the Government's financial squeeze. The FBI complains that budget cutbacks will force it to fire 147 staff members from its records division. The dismissals will make it more difficult to compile the bureau's annual Uniform Crime Reports (which list serious offenses such as murder, rape and robbery) and still keep tabs on hate crimes. New York Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer, who sponsored the bill in the House, is worried that the cutbacks will turn the measure into "little more than an empty gesture." Says an FBI spokesman...
Jews too have found that in a climate that seems to tolerate intolerance, incidents of harassment are on the rise. A Trinity University fraternity in San Antonio was placed on probation after requiring a Jewish pledge to dress in a Nazi uniform and parade through the campus cafeteria. Jewish women are derided as "Jewish-American princesses." At Cornell and elsewhere, students wear T shirts reading SLAP-A-JAP! and BACK OFF BITCH, I'M A JAP-BUSTER! "Anti-Semitism masked as sexism is more socially acceptable," says Rabbi Laura Geller, director of the Hillel Jewish Center at the University...
...mostly suggestive, this urban-black music is often politically or sexually explicit. N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude) won an admonishing letter from the FBI for their song FTha Police, in which the singer warns the ghetto's occupying force: "Ice Cube will swarm/ On any m f in a blue uniform . . ./ A young nigger on the warpath,/ And when I finish it's gonna be a bloodbath." Another group, Public Enemy, has been charged with anti-Semitism in their lyrics and statements to the press. But their songs are also critical of blacks who reject their roots, of the brothers...
Before walking into Memorial Hall, I had never seen a painting of a Civil War soldier wearing a blue uniform. My high school English teacher lived next door to William Faulkner, slept with Tennessee Williams and met Flannery O'Connor. Among my ancestors who immigrated to America, the last one landed on North Carolina's shore...