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...SEEMS LIKE AGES AGO, BUT in reality it has been less than three years since Husker Du was regarded as the loudest, grungiest, most health-hazardous band in the land. It the meantime, the Minnesota trio has taken off to a major label, college popularity and musical mediocrity. But now there emerges a new contender for the ramshackle throne abdicated by Bob Mould et alia, a contender going by the name of Squirrelbait...
...Orleans, hit the bars on Bourbon St. (don't miss Pat O'Brien's famous Hurricane) at night, and during the day stroll the Mississippi River Walk, enjoy the street artists and performers, and sample Cafe du Monde's beignets, a type of fried donut. Also, be sure to stop at the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in the Quarter one evening. The music is some of the best anywhere, and the $1 admission fee can't be beat...
...amount to punishing the children for the sins of the parent? And will jobs be available in an economy where the unemployment rate for years has stubbornly hung at 7% or higher? The New York task force pithily observes that "job placement programs cannot work without jobs." Pete du Pont, the conservative former Governor of Delaware who is now running for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination, proposes that the Government become the employer of last resort, and that might be extremely expensive...
...Richard Gephardt and Bill Bradley neatly trimmed for maximum political appeal, rising steadily. Sam Nunn consigned to the campaign basement unless the sides and back of his shag are thinned. George Bush ("really great") and Bob Dole ("styled very well") streamlined and sailing smartly into the political winds. Pete du Pont, Al Haig and Don Rumsfeld rightly barbered to take the course should the others falter. Jack Kemp, splendidly styled for football, left in the locker room instead of the White House if he does not have some serious cutting done...
...19th century. One day at Sunday lunch Lacroix was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Said he: "Christian Dior." He attended the University of Montpellier, studying classics and art history, and then went to Paris to train as a museum curator at the Ecole du Louvre. Then, in 1973, he attended a party largely because he had been told the food would be good. There he met his wife Francoise Rosenthiel, who now runs boutiques at the Paris Opera and at the new costume wing at the Louvre. "She walked in, we saw each other...