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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, 'Black and Blues' deserves credit for selling some genuinely wearable women's fashions. C.J. has apparently taken note of the sequin fad, displaying a cutesy beaded sweater by Karavan in violet and ivory for $30. Another good look is the black semi-sheer button-down shirt and matching skirt ($26 each) by Gaze...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: S'HABILLER en noir | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...movie is all about the aging of a southern belle, a shrinking violet turned black widow at the threat of replacement. The revenge of Scarlett, with the necessary homage to Freud. The film even goes out of its way to give an example of a foil to Jessica Lange's character, Martha. The good belle, played to perfection by Schaech's grandmother (played by Nina Foch) gives a wonderfully spirited performance. She delivers the best one-liners and has the venom befitting a woman on the side of the good and the righteous, the legitimate...

Author: By Shatema A. Threadcraft, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wait for Re-runs of Southern Gothic Soap Opera | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

DIVORCED. Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner, 50, violet-eyed empress of stage, screen and altar; and John Warner, 55, Republican Senator from Virginia; after six years of marriage; she for the sixth time, he for the second; in Fauquier County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1980-1989 Comeback | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Your item "Larry The Shrinking Violet" noted that I had dropped by a party held by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the night of the Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a "cozy white warm-up outfit," as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could get a jacket like mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...would like to send a word of thanks to the reviewer of my book Prater Violet. I think he did a marvelous job, and he certainly helped to start the book off in the biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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