Word: maxfield
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Leaping the Atlantic in the '70s, Doonan ventured into the continent that was to prove his postmodern paradise. There was a stint doing the storefronts of avant-garde Maxfield in L.A. and a collaboration with the legendary Diana Vreeland at the Costume Institute of the Met. Then in 1986, his notoriety well-established, Doonan was snatched by Barney's New York, where he has graduated from window dresser to creative director. His justification for being is in creating windows which inhabit the realm somewhere "beyond the valley of gorgeousity...
...PETE MAXFIELD (D) At large...
...Maxfield, a retired law professor, supports welfare reform and federal service programs like Americorps. Like many Wyoming Democrats, he thinks Barbara Cubin is vulnerable because she received only 53% of the vote in 1994, the Republican's big year--but to win, he will have to halt Wyoming's 20-year Republican run in the House...
...snobs and slackers -- a crash course in popular culture, high and low. Pay attention, for without warning or footnoting you may hear allusions to Thomas Pynchon, Susan Faludi, Joseph Campbell, Jenny Holzer, Andrew Sarris or Anna Kisselgoff. A starlet bathing in a lake suggests "Fanne Foxe in a Maxfield Parrish painting." And don't worry if some of the names are obscure to you. Nobody, including the writers, gets every reference...