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...second, unfolding as a sordid tragedy, centers on Joel Steinberg, a disbarred attorney accused of beating to death six-year-old Lisa, a child he had raised but never formally adopted. And, in a brief personal appearance, former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos swept into court swathed in silk...
...guilty to charges that she and her husband, the deposed Philippine President, embezzled $103 million from their nation's treasury. Mrs. Marcos could give Bette Midler tips on making an entrance. She swept into U.S. district court in nothing less bewitching than a floor-length turquoise gown, a silk-and-chiffon terno that is traditional Philippine wear. As she hoisted her presence up the courthouse steps, packs of demonstrators reared up to denounce her as the bloodsucker of the Philippine people. One woman bared false vampire fangs...
...began as a collection of Australian-inspired bush-country wear, and now features tamer English staples like jodhpurs and cable-knit sweaters. At Macy's, which sells an estimated 50 house brands, the Aeropostale line evokes the garb of 1920s French mail-plane pilots. The collection includes white silk scarves and rugged corduroy trousers. Macy's also offers a line of casual wear whose name makes a bald appeal to yuppie taste in real estate: Loft & Brownstone. At J.C. Penney, house brands range from the Silk Avenue collection of imported dresses to the Mixed Blues line of jeans...
...basement of the East, its low prices beaten even lower in a minuet of smiles and shrugs and bartered murmurings of "Mai pen rai," or "Never mind." Temptations are ubiquitous. Stalls line the main streets of the city from morning to midnight, hawking $10 "Rolexes," 80 cents pirated cassettes, silk ties and suitcases and noodles; river markets assemble impromptu on the canals at dawn; and 40 shiny department stores sell everything from computerized horoscopes to tiger cubs. In Bangkok, moreover, high standards and high prices part company: 100 business cards, laser-printed on the spot, go for $6; 300-year...
...then there is the rest of the city.) With us for a short orientation is Alexander Kira, a professor of architecture at Cornell. Kira is the utter antithesis of public rest-room grunge -- a dapper, courtly figure who carries a silver case for his imported cigarettes and keeps a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket. He's the author of a highly regarded study, The Bathroom, and he's in town for a convention about bathrooms in the home...