Word: monaco
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...always been the Cinderella Games, the odd Games out; a poor sister, it sometimes seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which one American Congressman took to be something...
Money is not the issue for customers of Hermes, a onetime harness shop founded in 1837 by Dumas's great-great-grandfather. The object is mystique. Princess Grace of Monaco christened the "Kelly handbag," a boxy Hermes classic she often carried. Wearing an Hermes scarf, Queen Elizabeth adorns a postage stamp. Lauren Bacall still slips into an Hermes shop to pick up leatherbound datebooks, and Gregory Peck to be fitted for handmade shoes. But if the rich and racy have always known about Hermes, it is only recently that a New Jersey stockbroker or a Dallas debutante has been able...