Word: upstarts
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...rock style has been replaced by bemused manor- house dressing. Milan's Romeo Gigli, working with finesse and the wily eye of a fine stylist, accomplished the inevitable: he took the vaunting ideas of Japan's great fashion designers, tailored them down and gave them fresh commercial pertinence. The upstart fashion of all three designers brought a leavening of zest to what was, in large part, a problematic season...
...Penn at Brown, 1:30 p.m., Providence, R.I. This is a classic match-up: the experienced champ against the upstart contender. Penn (3-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy) is looking for a record-tying fifth consecutive Ivy title...
Harvard continues its feast-or-famine season against Ivy upstart Cornell next Saturday at the Stadium...
...Democratic and Republican presidencies, wars and scandals, riots and recessions, Democratic Senators maintained a majority in the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body." Then came the 1980 election-night massacre, when the heartland liberals, the George McGoverns and Frank Churches and Birch Bayhs, were sent packing by a band of upstart Republicans, most of them quite conservative and many undistinguished, who rode into office on Ronald Reagan's flowing coattails. The Democrats lost the majority that night. This year, with that G.O.P. class of 1980 up for re-election for the first time, the Democrats are seeking revenge, and control...
...hardly seems the stuff from which either operas or hit musicals are made. In storied Harlem, an annual beauty contest for hairdressers is under way, and the proud, haughty Queenie Pie (Teresa Burrell) is on the verge of her 13th consecutive title. Unexpectedly, she is challenged by an upstart from New Orleans, the leggy Cafe Olay (Patty Holley), and is forced to examine her arid life. There is an extended dream sequence on a mythic island, during which Queenie Pie discovers where her heart really lies. At the end, victorious, she magnanimously gives up her crown to go off with...