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...will spend 15%-75% less this year on holiday affairs, as once lavish fetes are drastically downscaled (example: at Estee Lauder, talk of holding potluck lunches) or money once spent on celebration goes to charity. One sign of revelry in reverse: champagne makers fear holiday sales may be as flat as day-old Cristal...
...others say that the terrorist attacks have them questioning some of life's basic decisions, some temporarily - "I've buckled down financially and I've put off buying a flat," says London lawyer Victoria Froud - and others perhaps for some time to come. "I would not want to [bring] children into a world where people are continuously fighting each other," says 23-year-old Berliner Nada Todorovic. Explains Prague resident Alena Svobodova, a 57-year-old retired opera producer: "I have realized that any long-term planning is pointless because you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow...
...impact of Sept. 11 on fashion was visible that very morning. High-heeled shoes that had been kicked off the feet of women fleeing the Twin Towers were part of the detritus littering lower Manhattan. New York women haven't put them back on since. Slacks and flat shoes, clothes one can run in, are the must-have items for Manhattan...
...Fifteen seconds." From the sky, a great, arrow-shaped missile appeared, zeroing in on its target a hundred yards away and sounding like a car decelerating in high gear. The spotters lay flat. Alliance commanders and soldiers crouched against the door leading to the roof. The missile hit at 4:05 p.m. For a split second, as the concussive sound waves radiated outward, lungs emptied. Shrapnel whistled by. Then Alliance soldiers burst into applause. A U.S. soldier picked up a fallen piece of metal. "Souvenir," he said, grinning. Six more strikes followed before the British SAS commander re-established contact...
...Urinetown’s score is consistently varied and rewarding, its book tends to be more hit-and-miss. Attempts at sending up old-fashioned comedy frequently fall flat. Running gags involving faxing, copying and running away to Rio succeed at recalling pre-World War II film and theater, but though they seem to attempt to derive their humor from the fact that the references aren’t as funny as the characters think they are, the result remains unfunny for the audience. Two characters related to the company, the greedy right-hand man and the corrupt politician...