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...Reid was off again, this time to Brussels, where he applied for yet another new passport; an embassy spokeswoman says his previous one was worn. He stayed at the Hotel Dar Salam in the Belgian capital's Arab quarter, where travel agencies offer bus trips to North Africa and the air smells of figs, oranges and cous-cous. On most days, Reid walked into the city center to send e-mails from the Easynet Internet cafe...
DIED. PAULINE TRIGERE, 93, outspoken fashion diva whose elegant yet practical designs were worn by Bette Davis, Dina Merrill and the Duchess of Windsor; in New York City. The first major designer to hire an African-American model, Trigere was famously generous--and blunt. At one show, she explained the upside of a low-cut dress by offering, "You can see the boobs better...
...Mexican Restaurant is a homey little joint with red vinyl booths and murals of Mayan ruins. Papa Thomas Bermejo greets customers, while daughter Candy punches the cash register and son Julio presides behind the bar. The roar of ice crushers blends with mariachi brass. The waitress, in a worn T shirt, scuttles about at 78 R.P.M., hoisting platters of sizzling enchiladas...
...Despite all the hype?and bankable successes?there's still a naive, slightly dreamy look about Oyamada as he sits in his private recording studio in Nakameguro, Tokyo, flipping through pages of a worn-out manga magazine. It's only when he speaks that one detects the full weight of his 10 years in the Japanese indie-rock scene. "I'm not really into that whole rock and roll lifestyle," he says. "Even traveling in Europe, everything's kind of new and fresh and fun at first, but when you're doing the same thing 80 times...
...Fresh out of police-force training, Field is soon packing a gun and living the thrilling life he left England to find. Field initially sweats through the Shanghai summer conspicuously out of place in his dead father's Sunday best ("meant to be worn in a Yorkshire winter, not in the stifling heat of the Far East"). Before long?with the help of an uncle in high places?he's in a tailor-made, lightweight suit, sipping his first glass of champagne and taking in his first burlesque show...