Word: williams
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Indeed, Chicago represents a role model for success in mayoral school takeovers. Its public school system, branded the worst in the nation in 1987 by U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, had physically dilapidated schools and churned out students ill-prepared for the work force or college. By the mid-'90s, students were testing some 70% below the national average in reading and math, and nearly 6% were chronically truant. And kids could always plan for a few extra days of summer vacation as teacher strife over pay would invariably grind into a strike...
...business for just one year, the partners last week won a nomination for the prestigious Perry Ellis Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Sportswear too is flourishing, notably in the output of Patrick Robinson and Pixie Yates. And even ball gowns have a tasteful advocate in William Calvert, whose collection is sure to be the highlight of this week's South of Seventh event in New York City, which is intended to showcase the work of largely unknown new designers...
...William Calvert, 29, has made an even quicker trip to important retail venues. Just two years ago, Calvert, who refined his tailoring skills at the fabled Parisian houses of Balmain and Balenciaga, decided to make six sample dresses in New York. Barney's and Bergdorf Goodman placed orders, and suddenly he was in business...
...explains. "They are about the contours of the body." Calvert has already found a fan in the eminent (and like-minded) Geoffrey Beene, a designer not known for the promiscuous use of terms like absolutely fabulous. Says Beene: "There has been a great period of mediocrity in fashion, and William is the shining light at the end of that tunnel...
...worth following because it forks into a second story--Simon and his friend Marcus (Taye Diggs) go to a Vegas lap-dance parlor and play with gunfire--and a third, involving Adam, Zack and a narc (William Fichtner) who comes on to them like a Mark Fuhrman on Viagra. Though some of these folks shade into their 30s, all act like teenagers. The movie is set on Christmas Eve, but emotionally it's Mischief Night, when kids will do anything for the freewheeling hell of it. They fool around as if there were no tomorrow, not caring that tomorrow...