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...fashion. Our bodies naturally make us individuals and the Gap is taking the lead in popularizing a line of clothing designed in sizes and shapes that reflect this. This change is part of what I hope is a departure from the cultural totalitarianism that brought us the corset and bustle, liposuction, cosmetic surgery and self-induced vomiting...
...that free markets succeed where governments fail, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is a very voguish thinker. Though his effort to revive his country's punch-drunk economy gets much less attention than the shake-ups transforming Eastern Europe, his monetary program . is every bit as revolutionary. To corset the bloated public sector and turn the economy over to the entrepreneurs, Collor has adopted policies more radical than anything attempted in Brazil in decades -- or perhaps ever -- since taking office on March 15. His approach, says Kenneth Maxwell, senior fellow at the New York City-based Council on Foreign...
...main source of international venture capital. The patrimony of overseas assets thus accumulated went to pay the costs of fighting two world wars. By 1945, Britain was, in international terms, broke. Deprived of its underpinning of foreign assets, sterling became a wobbly currency, held precariously upright by a stiff corset of exchange controls. As late as 20 years after the war, Britons were forbidden to take more than (pounds)50 out of the country. Direct investment overseas required special dispensation from the Bank of England; portfolio investment was virtually banned...
...Hurts like the Dickens)." His portrayal of Andatramp is reminiscent of Bette Davis's Margo Channing in All About Eve-- a tough, jaded bitch with a lot of spunk and a warm heart. In addition, he shows off his usual dancing prowess, despite the unusual impediments of a tight corset and long petticoats and skirts...
...Geffen showed no taste for academics. At New Utrecht High School, where his senior yearbook predicted he would be a dentist, Geffen finished in the bottom tenth of his class. But he was inspired by business, an interest nurtured partly by his mother's proprietorship of a bra-and-corset shop. After dropping out of two colleges, he padded his resume with a fake degree from UCLA and landed a job as a mail- room clerk at the William Morris talent agency. (He still faults the company for requiring that credential for a low-level job.) Moving up quickly, Geffen...