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...found the man who killed Mozart." Ian McKellen whispered. He stared at a small man sitting near him in a New York City Italian restaurant. The man had a hard, beaked face. He wore a dark silk suit and deep gray shirt, and he looked altogether like a crow who had just come back from a health farm. He hunched over his food and held his hands over his plate in an inverted V, letting his fork dangle from his fingers like the clapper inside a bell...
...cocktails are reprints of an August, 1980, New York Times Magazine article: "Inside Exxon: Managing an $85 Billion-a-Year Empire." The men are a sea of blue and gray pinstripes; the women wrapped in tastefully muted tailored skirts and jackets with the ubitquitous string bow tie or large silk bow. Bits of conversation between the similarly Dressed-For-Success Exxon recruiters and the students relate to the topic at hand--but broadly, not broaching the specifics which will come later...
...finest French silk, spun by the larvae only the most aristocratic of silkworms, could speak, it would sound like Lauren Bacall. Affixed to a body that, in the '70s and '80s, has become the grist for more than a few older woman fantasies, that voice could fill a theater with a dramatic reading of the Globe classifieds. And that, alas, seems to be the theory behind Woman of the Year...
...easy and inconspicuous, unlikely to attract muggers in the scruffy neighborhoods where photographers' studios are often located. What Clotilde and most of the other successful models do a lot of is the misty, haunting Sears catalogue, and what they are paid for is to make polyester look like silk. A face that Botticelli would have admired helps a great deal, and after an hour at the makeup table Clotilde has drawn one on herself, cooked her long brown hair in curlers and As Photographer Watanabe shoots Polaroid stills to test the light and color, Clotilde waits. Like all the real...
...wearing red tights, a black tank top, a rough-trade belt, and Sony headphones over her ponytail. Iman, the gazelle-like Somalian, in silver pants and a noisy yellow top, joined her and they began dancing and laughing. Another black model, completely dressed on her bottom half in pleated silk skirt, stockings and shoes and completely bare above the waist, cantered through the room as Brooke watched in amazement...