Word: cases
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Mello finds inspiration in unlikely places. While she was eating dinner one night in a Florence restaurant, a man Mello had never met before showed her a worn-out pigskin Gucci briefcase that he had held on to for 25 years. Gucci no longer sold the case, he told her. Would they consider bringing it back? Mello admired the case, and Gucci will soon manufacture it. "We'd always been known for our briefcases," says Mello. "We want to have that name again...
...case of Vietnam, it took more than a decade and the loss of 58,000 American lives before domestic support collapsed. The Iraq crisis is only 4 1/ 2 months old, and there has not been a single U.S. combat death. Yet some sectors of the home front are already in the throes of a full-scale antiwar movement. Bush's attempt to fill the conceptual vacuum left by the end of the cold war with talk about a new world order apparently works better in the United Nations than in the United States...
...attack, in which the white woman while jogging was assaulted by a gang of black and Hispanic teenagers, roiled the city's already tense race relations. Black supporters of the youths charged that the media had hypocritically focused on this case while ignoring countless aggressions against nonwhite women. But the jurors -- four whites, four blacks, three Hispanics and one Asian -- insisted that they quickly discarded race as a factor in their 12 days of deliberations...
...feels it went wrong long before Tom Stoppard sat down to write his doggedly faithful adaptation of John le Carre's best seller, long before director Fred Schepisi shouted "Action!" (or, possibly, in this case, "Stasis!"), perhaps even before the novelist set to work on his book. Le Carre seems to have gone off at about the moment the literary world made him its designated serious entertainer and he started believing his enthralled reviews. All his recent books contain far more writing than they require to explore their conventional characters and ideas. "Oh, get on with it," one snorts, setting...
WORLD: By promising to free the hostages, Saddam undercuts the case...