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...originators of the Mao-now, peasant-chic look several years back, Japanese-born Kenzo, 38, has moved out of the Orient with clothes that suggest rollicking pirates (some of his models even wore black eyepatch-es), swashbuckling naval officers, and the Indians of the Raj, decked out in white duck and Nehru caps. Kenzo also displayed some opulent evening wear, notably a blue gown that exposed the model's left breast. (Who needs jewelry?) His fabrics?including linens and striped cottons?are more refined, and his colors eclectically electric...
...fast. The guests hurried into the gallery to luminous landscapes, restrained delight and canapes. Baudelaire, whose art criticism could be as sparse and illuminating as his poetry was scented with opiate-rich darkness, would have enjoyed the scene. For here, in this glass-fronted room glowing out of the duck of Boston, the sophisticates peered and exclaimed much as they would have a century or more ago at the opening of a Paris Salon. While describing the "Painter of Modern Life" in the mid-19th century, Baudelaire had hinted of the paradox that attends modernity...
David Mamet is the chameleon of young U.S. playwrights. Had he used diverse aliases, few playgoers could have guessed that plays as different in theme and texture as Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo and, now, A Life in the Theater had all been written by the same...
...With police helicopters hovering overhead, the presidential motorcade drove by block after block of devastated buildings, many of them burned to charred shells by arsonists. The President got out of his car twice to walk through the rubble with HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and New York's lame-duck mayor, Abraham Beame. "Let me walk about a block," he told his Secret Service agents at one point, and then he proceeded, in good campaign style, to shake hands with slumdwellers who crowded doorsteps and street corners. "How are you doing, Jimmy? What a surprise," said Ramón Rueda...
Playing in weather better suited to a duck symposium than a football game, the Harvard J.V. football team handed the Dartmouth squad its second loss in five years yesterday, surfacing to victory...