Amanda Horan Kennedy doesn't see it that way.

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Only the knock-down-drag-out fight that ends the second act fails to register, in part because Rob Howell's distractingly spectacular deco-modern set isn't cluttered enough to let Elyot and Amanda whip up a sufficiently chaotic mess.

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Cyrus is getting older, but she's not in and out of court ( no offense, Lindsay), or getting into car wreck after car wreck ( no offense, Amanda), so isn't the "good girl gone bad" label pushing it?

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"There's still a huge untapped market out there--there's no reason to believe that there isn't enough share to go around, " says Amanda Tepper, who covers Aramark for J.

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While nothing as bad as that happens in "Private Lives, " in part because Mr. Gross really doesn't look his age, it's still a mistake to cast Amanda as a cougar on the loose.

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Which leads to the trickle-up theory: couture, being about lasting luxury instead of fashion fads, doesn't set trends but rather picks them up by osmosis, and last March the ready-to-wear shows were full to the brim with furs, from Ann Demeulemeester's cave-woman wraps to Amanda Wakeley's ermine jumper to Fendi's furs-that-didn't-look-like-furs (they looked like hobo patchwork coats, chunky grandma jumpers, and velvet skirts).

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