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...moment, designer denim is a hot item, but when the fad is over, it is unlikely to decline in ignominy like the Nehru jacket. Instead it will probably become part of fashion's standing repertoire of alluring textiles. "Denim is the one thing everyone owns," says Donna Karan, who uses it extensively. From now on, it is likely to be found in garment bags as well as on coat pegs...
...honey, do we really need any more philosophical tofu?" (Henry Featherless and his wife Glenda are browsing in the Just Barely Books store at the shopping mall. He flips through a demure volume she has chosen, suppresses a snicker and gives her the business.) "Says here on the dust jacket, Itty- Bitty Insights, Part...
...touch that politicians would kill for. The camera worships them: Queen Mum in her spun-sugar hat, pastel coat anchored by a huge, gem-laden brooch and a dusting of ostrich feathers; Diana in her elegant column of silk or her inspired off-duty wardrobe (including a Philadelphia Eagles jacket). These women just don't take a bad picture. Perhaps only the Pope is as photogenic...
...Yeltsin's support had slid to 44% and chief rival Nikolai Ryzhkov's had risen to a surprisingly respectable 27%. The candidate seemed unfazed by the news. "These figures go up and down," he said in a nationally televised interview. Then, in characteristic fashion, he took off his suit jacket and conducted the rest of the session in his shirt sleeves...
...prejudice. They hate all blacks for the sins of some blacks; they resent the black male for his perceived genital superiority. The film's title announces as much. This is a story, Lee says, "about two people who came together because of sexual mythology." The legend on a jacket worn by one of Lee's colleagues at last month's Cannes Film Festival put the matter bluntly: JUNGLE FEVER, OR FEAR OF THE BIG BLACK DICK...