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...maverick among designers, Kamali refuses to do fashion shows, feeling they stroke designers' egos more than they benefit customers. Often Kamali waits anonymously on customers. In that role, she gets honest feedback on her clothes: "You know instantaneously if you're right on target or if you're not with what people need and want." Kamali believes she has heard the message: she's going to keep on sweating. -By Georgia Harbison

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Hot-Selling Locker Room Look | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...Crimson looked much better in the second half, completely dominating the last ten minutes of the game. Captain Maureen Finn scored on a penalty stroke, and freshman Andrea Mainelli got her first goal as a Harvard player to make the final score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Blanked By Penn, Beat Bentley; Martin Scores Twice to Spark 4-1 Victory | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...Wildcats, the team that knocked Harvard out of the EAIAW playoffs in Springfield last November, took a 1-0 lead 12 minutes into the proceedings when star midfielder Carla Hesler flicked a penalty stroke past Crimson goalie Juliet Lamont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wildcats Blank Crimson, 3-0 | 9/26/1981 | See Source »

...standards of mercy, Jane deserved a quick and early death. In 1957, at the age of 40, she suffered a stroke that cruelly afflicted her with aphasia - the in ability to write or grasp the meaning of some of the simplest words. One of her doctors said of Jane's illness: "If you were to devise how best to undermine the mind of a writer, you couldn't think of a better means than this." She lingered on through cycles of recovery and deterioration for over 15 years, witnessing the success of Paul as a novelist - not missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragments of a Gentle Despair | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Dillon never forgets, Bowles brought a gallantry to her out matched struggle with her life. It is strangely fitting that her last major stroke occurred while she was dancing at a party in her madhouse, thus earning herself her own brave and touching epitaph: "I have never yet enjoyed a day, but I have never stopped trying to happiness." arrange for - By Melvin Maddocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragments of a Gentle Despair | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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