Notebook: Apr. 8, 1996

WINNERS & LOSERS

HIGH AND LOW FASHION

[WINNERS]

DONATELLA VERSACE Publicity-shy Woody Allen, Mike Tyson and Lisa Marie Presley come to her Versus show

FAMOUS PEOPLE'S DAUGHTERS Ivanka Trump, daughter of Ivana, and Jillian Hearst, daughter of Patty, strut the catwalk

THE GAP This year's black T shirt gets boost when Sharon Stone wears last year's to the Oscars

[& LOSERS]

DONNA KARAN Gets slammed by fashion press and colleague Calvin Klein for abandoning traditional venue

MODELS WHO WANT TO ACT Showing off costumes at the Oscars requires more than attitude. And smiling is permitted

'70S HATERS The decade isn't going away. Long coats, wide lapels and (eek!) even gauchos are back high and low Fashion

TABOO TATTOOS

For more than a century the Marine Corps' traditional eagle, globe and anchor tattoo has been rippling across the biceps and backs of Leathernecks. But lately, too many recruits are festooned with adornments too tasteless for even hardy jarheads. One Marine wannabe's temple, for example, bore tattoos of bullet holes with blood oozing from them (he didn't get in). Another recruit sported a naked woman (he was barred until he had a bathing suit tattooed upon her). Recruiters are forwarding snapshots of dubious tattoos to senior officers for their approval before the wearers are allowed into the Marines. The issue took a serious turn following the March 5 murder of a Marine lieutenant colonel at Camp Pendleton, California, allegedly by a sergeant under his command. The suspect has a tattooed teardrop coming out of the corner of his left eye, which may be a gang symbol. Under current Marine regulations, though, a teardrop is perfectly unobjectionable. That is expected to change. A corps panel is codifying the rules for just what types of tattoos will pass Marine muster.

WASHINGTON: PIG HEAVEN

No matter how many diatribes echo through the halls of Congress, lawmakers continue to lard the folks back home with old-fashioned, mouth-watering pork. In their just published Pig Book, the group Citizens Against Government Waste ferrets out $12.5 billion of fat in 1996 government spending. A few choice cuts, which we have graded by oinks (out of five) for piggishness:

BENEFACTOR OINK-O-METER

Senator Thad Cochran [4 oinks] Republican, Mississippi -Chairman of the Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee

MORSELS

Nearly $10 million for Mississippi-based projects, including $3 million for the National Food Service Management Institute, $1.9 million for the National Center for Warmwater Aquaculture and $1.6 million for the Center for Water and Wetland Resources at the University of Mississippi, the chairman's alma mater

[BENEFACTOR]

Rep. Thomas Foglietta [3 OINKS] Democrat, Pennsylvania -Member of the House Appropriations Military Construction Subcommittee

[MORSELS]

$6 million to renovate a foundry at the soon to be closed Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, which lies in the Congressman's district

[BENEFACTOR]

Senator Robert Dole [5 OINKS] Republican, Kansas -Senate Majority Leader

[MORSELS]