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...politics (though remarkably, everyone now seems to remember him as headed that way). Just as well, perhaps ? we don?t much like our politicians these days, and private-sector John-John (our name for him) was his father brought nearer and friendlier, the affable scion on a SoHo street corner. And he certainly wasn?t ugly ? indeed, he was handsomer in person, handsomer than his father, handsomer than just about anybody else we liked to think we knew. But what if he hadn?t been? What if he had been less like Princess Diana, and more like Prince Charles...
Ambrosia, the self-described "SoHo meets Back-Bay eatery" was there to advertise their new "tea sorbets." At a pricey $3 per pint, most customers tasted the sorbets before buying. Flavored in Chocolate Nutmeg, Lavender Peach and Lemon Lime Leaf, Ambrosia's new products were described by taste-testers as "exotic" and "unconventional...
Ambrosia, the self-described "SoHo meets Back-Bay eatery" was there to advertise their new "tea sorbets." At a pricey $3 per pint, most customers tasted the sorbets before buying. Flavored in Chocolate Nutmeg, Lavender Peach and Lemon Lime Leaf, Ambrosia's new products were described by taste-testers as "exotic" and "unconventional...
This is vintage Greer, profane and highly quotable. Says Knopf president Sonny Mehta, who was at Cambridge with Greer in the 1960s and who, over lunch in London's Soho, encouraged her to write The Female Eunuch: "Germaine is a force." Her skill as a quick-change polemicist is what gives The Whole Woman its flashes of originality: she takes issues on which most progressive women thought they had positions and sets a standard all her own. You think advances in reproductive technology have been good for women? Well, writes Greer (who underwent failed fertility treatments), "I think it rather...
Beyond the universe of DKNY, DVF and other acronym wear, however, an independent spirit is quietly thriving. Indeed, the future of American dress seems secure on the sketchpads of a few young Manhattan designers, all of whom have gained a following without the benefit of big corporate backers, eponymous SoHo-based retail monuments or advertising campaigns...