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...anyone can change that, it's John Bartlett. The first American designer trained specifically in menswear who has attracted a significant following since Ralph Lauren, he's at the start of what critics and retailers are predicting will be a big, bold career. His sexy-but-cerebral aesthetic is catching on with customers outside his traditionally gay following. Already the plucky designs by this graduate of Harvard and the Fashion Institute of Technology have caught the eye of Italian manufacturing giant Genny Holdings SpA, which snapped up the 34-year-old Bartlett for a licensing deal last year after...
...market's craziness last week brought that lesson home to me. While everyone knows the troubles that left the market vulnerable--Asia, Lewinsky, stock prices that are historically high relative to earnings--what set off last Tuesday's rockslide was one of those oft-quoted gurus, Ralph Acampora of Prudential Securities, who reversed his prediction of a day earlier and said on CNBC that we may be entering a bear market for blue chips. The Dow Jones 30 industrials shed 300 points in a flash. But the real pain came Wednesday, when the market dropped an additional...
...Meanwhile, vengeance -- of a difference sort -- is Uma's as TV's Peel and Steed (Ralph Fiennes) make their big-screen debut as "The Avengers" hits multiplexes nationwide...
...company (projected 1998 revenues: $9.5 million) has sold 7 million books and software packages since 1971. "Every public library in America, almost without exception, stocks our books," says co-founder Ralph Warner. So do institutions like the University of Michigan, where law-library director Margaret Leary says of Nolo publications, "We consider them the best books about law for laypeople...
More numerous are the power men who shone in unjoyful ages and in the half-light of provincial parks. Hack Wilson hit 58, but in 1930 Chicago wasn't ready to party. Ralph Kiner flattened balls, but did so in Pittsburgh, which is the Big City only if you're in Cincinnati...where Frank Robinson was huge, before he went to (equally frowzy) Baltimore. You get the idea: it's an uncommon man at an odd moment who can play in the league we're speaking...