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...color scheme and presenting it as avant-garde "high art," Warhol raises questions about why we call certain things art, and how the mainstream of popular culture looks at and effects artistic progress. He raises similar questions about popular attitudes toward money (large $-signs on blank canvases), sensationalism (silk screen paintings of car crashes and electric chairs) and fundamentalist Christianity (a painting that says simply "Repent and Sin No More...
...Philadelphia silk wholesaler, Myerson made his mark in the 1970s at the venerable New York law firm of Webster & Sheffield. But his craving for power and wealth caused constant friction with partners, many of whom were relieved when Myerson was wooed away in 1984 by Finley, Kumble, an aggressive 700-lawyer firm that became synonymous with '80s-style greed...
...world of uniformly styled business suits, neckties offer men a chance to make a personal statement. Now they can make headlines. A few weeks ago, Nicole Miller, the New York City clothing designer notable for trendy one- theme designs, introduced a limited-edition collection of men's silk ties, squares, shirts and boxer shorts, as well as women's shirts and scarves, featuring some of the more infamous headlines from the tabloid New York Post...
...DOWN LIKE A DOG? At stores like Bloomingdale's, Saks and Bullock's, as well as the Nicole Miller shop in Manhattan, such clothing is selling faster than an extra-edition sex scandal. And you can forget about wearing the news discreetly under your suit. The $55 silk boxer shorts, like most of the other items, are already sold out. In just one week, sales topped $100,000. Says Nicole Miller CEO Bud Konheim: "These designs are much hotter than we expected. Since everything we do is limited edition, when we say sold out, we mean forever." Fear not, trendies...
Buchanan's most significant support comes from the state's largest newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, whose hostility toward Bush is legend. The paper's late publisher, William Loeb, years ago labeled Bush a "clean- fingernail, silk-stocking liberal," and no amount of presidential stroking has calmed Loeb's successor, his widow Nackey, 67. To her, Bush simply "sits under an umbrella and watches the storm, hoping to come out with neither rain on his face nor clay on his feet...