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...Milan shows last week that Gigli had left in a bit of a huff, having lost a wrangle over a choice scheduling spot to Ferre, whose revenues ($390 million in 1988) currently carry a good deal more clout than Gigli's (under $10 million). "One day I just woke up and thought I'd like to show in Paris," shrugs Gigli, perhaps forgetting that Paris, for other Italian designers (like Simonetta), turned into a nightmare that left them disenfranchised, with no singular creative identity. "I shouldn't yet take all this for more than a one-season wonder," said Suzy...
...bright side of the Tower fiasco may be that it woke up the White House. "It has got Bush's attention focused," says an Administration official. An outside adviser says, "They've got a major bailout operation under way right now." On Tuesday night chief of staff John Sununu, ever confident and combative, sought advice from an informal group of outsiders that he occasionally convenes: a dozen former Bush campaign officials and political consultants who gathered for dinner in the Roosevelt Room and discussed how to recover from the debacle...
...Whenever we hit low, we never woke up quick enough to level it off," Harvard coach Ihsan Gurdal said. "The MIT team never played different. When they beat us, they played the same; when they lost to us, they played the same. It's us that's making the difference and I think we need to find a remedy for that...
Vermont, which was swept by Harvard in regular-season play, woke up less than two minutes after MacDonald's goal when Jeff Schulman smoked a shot from the blue line that found the left corner...
Advertisers admit that they woke up just in time. The baby boomers who shook up marketing themes 25 years ago are fast approaching middle age. Says Karp: "We'd better get our act together. In five to seven years, the boomers will begin to join the over-50 crowd." When it comes to portraying energetic oldsters, advertisers have only begun to kick up their heels...