Word: intrepid
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...nighttime soap opera. The plot goes something like this: the House of Windsor, imperturbable on the outside, has become a seething "Palace Dallas" on the inside. The Princess, once known as Shy Di, has been transformed into "Dynasty Di"; and Prince Charles, once dubbed Action Man for his intrepid sky- and skin diving, has become a hermetic, mystical crank...
...form in the controlled accident of the fall, making the body under them feel as loose and free as the fabric. He has even experimented with molding the body underneath. Other designers working the same territory might just market a line of underwear. Not Miyake. He designs bustiers for intrepid evening wear out of motorcycle- helmet plastic and mounts a museum project called "Bodyworks," which has appeared in Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Francisco and at London's Victoria and Albert Museum...
...most of them are made, the clothes get pretty dear after freight charges, duties and store markups are added for sale in other parts of the world (a fall coat, for example, made of wool and nylon mesh costs $955). Two pieces of advice in passing, then, to the intrepid and well-heeled consumer taking a maiden voyage into Miyake: the clothes, so unconstraining, can be addictive; and the name is pronounced...
...style may not take hold right away with the couturiers of New Bond Street. But Britain's intrepid Diana, 24, was fetching nonetheless in a bright orange survival suit and hard hat as she spent three hours last week inspecting Forties Charlie Platform, a giant offshore oil rig located 110 miles off Aberdeen, Scotland, in the frigid and fogbound waters of the North Sea. Seems that Husband Charles visited a British Petroleum rig earlier this year, and the oil company heard through the royal grapevine that Di was disappointed not to have been included. A BP helicopter was dispatched...
...history, and there are still four months to go. The year has seen 15 air accidents worldwide and a death toll estimated at more than 1,500, surpassing the previous record, set in all of 1974, by at least 245 deaths. The bleak performance has ruffled even the most intrepid flyers, and now is raising disturbing issues about flight overcrowding and inattention to safety that could give airlines a bumpy ride in the months ahead. "The 'driver' is economics, not safety," Charles Miller, a former safety inspector for the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, charged last week...