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Designers got the message the hard way. Those urban ranks of briefcase- toting women in their boxy suits and string ties really did mean business. "For the first time, working women have voted with their pocketbooks," says Alan Millstein, publisher of the Fashion Network Report, an industry newsletter. "No serious executive female wants to look like Tina Turner when she goes to work." Millstein is among several commentators who point the finger at Women's Wear Daily Editorial Director John Fairchild, perhaps the most powerful voice in American fashion, especially among buyers, for pushing the short length too hard. Ordinarily...
Felsen started off the string by scoring at the 9:10 mark of the first half. Ten seconds later, Katie McAnaney put Harvard on top to stay. Felsen then took control, assisting Co-Captain Cindi Ersek, scoring off a feed from Char Joslin, and assisting Ersek with two minutes and thirty seconds remaining in the half...
Lately, Mutter has been performing frequently with Cellist and Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, both as a soloist with Rostropovich's National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and as two-thirds of a string trio that includes Violist Bruno Giuranna. Speaking as one for whom the violinistic legerdemain of the two Prokofiev concertos holds no terrors, Mutter observes of her new mentor: "He is the only one who knows what was going on with Prokofiev when he wrote that music...
...warmly reassuring aromas of dinner simmering on the stove. And diverse though the array of take- out foods may be, inevitably there seems to be a sameness -- the endless curls and squiggles of cold pastas, the curried or dilled chicken salads and the pans of wilting zucchini and string beans swimming in oil. Then there is the dominant flavor -- call it take-out -- owing perhaps to bottled dressings or sauces underseasoned to appeal to the mass palate. Gone are the idiosyncratic subtleties of family recipes...
...Crimson (2-2 overall) began its string of games with a solid victory over the Tigers. It was pouring rain, but 40 faithful fans showed up at swampy Soldiers Field...