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...case with Rive Gauche at all," he laments. "I have to work with factories. I give them a sketch and have to wait twelve to 15 days before I see the result. It's total anguish." One of the pressure points of Saint Laurent's calendar is assembling the Rive Gauche costumes just before a show. With Klossowski at his side, he looks at the models. If the girl interests him, he adds the pendants and handkerchiefs to the costume swiftly, murmuring "Superbe"or "Sublime"to himself. If the model leaves him cold, he broods...
...says the store hires five or six extra people to cope with the increased numbers of customers. Garvin added that although the store doesn't undergo any major reorganization, "we still have to figure out where to put 200 copies of "A Child's Christmas in Wales." Garvin said calendars are "tremendously big sellers," and several lines, such as the National Audubon Society calendar, have already sold...
...readers, for the countless millions who have heard of Big Brother and the estimated year of his arrival, this New Year's Day offers some unsettling moments: that glimpse of the new calendar, the first chance to write 1984 in a diary or on a letter or check. Orwell spelled his title out, a practice followed in the first editions: the book had a name, like Utopia or Leviathan, not a date. But the shorthand 1984 also gained wide currency. And those four neutral integers, fused so long in the public consciousness, have acquired the shimmering, brutal power...
Orwell experts jetting from one gala to another can keep track of the time through "The 1984 Calendar" ($10.95), the inspiration of two Michigan State graduates. Billed as "a day-by-day history of the increasing erosion of civil liberties in the U.S.," it measures 17 in. by 34 in. and features black-and-white photographs of U.S. Government buildings (the IRS, FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs) and of police riot squads and jail cells. Each date is annotated with one or more reminders, trivial as well as grim, of the loss of freedom; few may recall that...
...bill prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual preference is racing against the calendar, according to Massachusetts Gay Political Caucus lobbyist Arlina Isaacson...