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...Catalog freaks would recognize Easton as an L.L. Bean kind of town. On second thought, that may be a little narrow. It is a Bean-Gokeys-Orvis-Eddie Bauer-Lands' End kind of town; it spreads its trade around. Topsiders, penny loafers, khaki pants, monogrammed sweaters, oxford-cloth shirts, lamb suede jackets and the ever present tweed, to say nothing of argyle socks, contribute heavily to the Easton uniform. Easton was preppie when preppie wasn't cool. Ducks embellish its mailboxes; there are ducks on its welcome mats. It is a place of fine old houses hugging tidy...
...find more risk taking, more motivation and more financial entrepreneurship." Notes Leonard Weil, president of California's Mitsui Manufacturers Bank: ($1.7 billion): "Despite all the dark suits worn by its leaders, banking is a very dynamic industry." Bankers have rolled out dozens of new services ranging from discount-catalog shopping to home-equity accounts that allow consumers to write checks based on the value of their house or condominium...
Lebowitz's catalog of boorishnesses is somewhat eclectic: zealous nonsmokers, people who go to work with colds, waiters who introduce themselves before handing out menus. Worst of all, says Lebowitz, who once drove a cab, are cab drivers. Says she: "Manners may be too polite a word. Many cab drivers just seem to be mildly insane. I would rather pay and just let the guy sit in the back while I drive...
...press conferences in Washington and Nairobi, Leakey and Walker last week announced that they had unearthed the remains of a male specimen of Homo erectus. The hominid, given a catalog number of WT 15000, was one of a group that was directly ancestral to man and is known to have used fire and lived in caves as well as on the plains of Africa. Members of the species migrated as far as Asia, where the cranium of the so-called Java Man was discovered in 1891 and the Peking...
Gauguin's stay in Tahiti and the Marquesas from 1891 to 1903 is by now one of the soap operas of art history. Yet the curious fact, as Varnedoe points out in a brilliant catalog essay, was that Polynesian art made virtually no impact on his painting; all its primitive elements-the flatness, the sinuous friezelike poses, the outlining-were either there already or deduced from photographs of Javanese, Cambodian and other Oriental material that he took with him. (One should not forget that in the 1880s, Frenchmen were still talking about Japanese art as art pri-mitif.) When...