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...show's organizers. "We wanted to convey the lively sense of the East Village as a place where all the arts interrelate." Citizens of the area see themselves as being a little like social pioneers and a lot like artistic avatars of previous generations. A gifted designer named Julia Morton makes comparisons to the Greenwich Village of the 1950s, where "painters were creating their own original concept of art. It's the same sort of thing that's going on down here now." That kind of freewheeling climate has encouraged inspired variations even on hidebound forms. Anyone who thinks there...
...When I first came to the East Village, there was nothing here but methadone clinics," says Morton, who is 28 and a partner in an intrepid boutique called Einstein's. "It was a chance for me to break out of Seventh Avenue and really do my own thing. The East Village is just a location, just an area, but it became a launching pad for young designers." Some of these flamboyantly monikered tyros (like Animal-X, Katpeacent, Nick Nix) could be easily confused with the local rock talent (Cargo Cult, Live Skull), which is no accident. The relationship between music...
...decorated with squirmy rubber fishing lures; a black rubber dress with a zip from back to hem by Mariann Marlowe; and an all-vinyl snakeskin suit by Animal-X. Some of the clothes go for immediate impact over staying power. But there are a fair number of designers, like Morton and Goodman, who are imaginative enough to be in no immediate danger of a burnout, and there are others, as well, who show signs of staying the course. Three examples...
...evidence suggests that Rockwell's drug situation had anything to do with the Challenger tragedy. The solid rocket booster that is suspected of causing the explosion was made by Chicago-based Morton Thiokol, and no reports of drug use among its employees have surfaced. Nonetheless, any drug abuse among production workers in the space program or the defense industry carries grave risks. Says Frankel: "In this kind of ultra-high-tech work, the guy who makes the little adjustments, the screwer-on of parts, the bolter of nuts, is just as important as the project's chief engineer...
That conviction was based largely on testimony indicating how NASA officials had dealt with the preflight concerns expressed by two of the shuttle's prime contractors: Morton Thiokol, which makes the solid-fuel boosters that are the main focus of the search for a cause of the disaster, and Rockwell International, which manufactures the orbiter. Officials and engineers of both companies insisted that they had opposed the launch, at least initially, because of the cold weather and ice at the pad. But the NASA officials who heard the complaints contended that the objections had never been raised as forcefully...