Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other than luck, what an oilman needs most is persistence. Marvin Davis has plenty of both. The bulky son of a dress manufacturer from Newark, Davis made his first billion dollars in less than 20 years as a Denver-based wildcatter with a salesman's knack for raising capital and a blessed instinct for drilling gushers. Now, amid the takeover frenzy gripping the airline industry, Davis has set his cap for a giant carrier...
MANDY PATINKIN IN CONCERT: DRESS CASUAL. The edgy, high-energy star of stage (Evita) and film (Yentl) thrills Broadway with a brilliantly idiosyncratic styling of ballad and show tunes...
...different and less interesting character of Sellars' creation. In the intensely dramatic finale, for example, he is not dragged unrepentant to hell by the statue of the man he murdered but rather led there, while groveling in his underwear, by a young girl in what looks like a Communion dress...
Initially this meant a two-room apartment off an alley and a lot of generosity from old pals. During this period he reinforced a reputation for frugality. At Midland's annual golf tournament, one of the gag trophies is the George Bush Dress Award, shaggy plaid trousers bestowed on the competitor sporting the worst attire. Its eponym still buys bargain threads at a factory outlet. Despite his recent affluence, he continues to describe himself as "all name and no money." Thrift is a virtue for someone trying to build his own business without capital. Bush became known as a shrewd...
...catalog puts it) T shirt for $24 in 15 different colors, including watermelon, tangelo and mango. Other characteristic items: Shaker cotton sweaters ($38) and unlined canvas jackets ($68). This year J. Crew is branching into clothes for the office as well. Fall offerings will include a wool V-neck dress ($128) and a men's herringbone-tweed jacket (about...