Word: garments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McCann, 49, the daughter of a subway worker, grew up in Manhattan's garment district, attending parochial schools and Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., which was then an expensive Catholic school for women. "It's a poor family that can't afford one lady," said her father, who had to struggle to keep her there. Working in school plays gave her a taste of drama. During a trip to a real backstage-to visit Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town-she became infected with an incurable disease: the dread Broadway fever. Says she: "I was hooked...
...likely to have its own problems in selling a program. At present, it is a house divided among 105 unions that include conservative construction workers, government employees, garment workers who make an average of $6,500 a year and airline pilots who sometimes earn more than $100,000. As a result, Reagan's promises of tax relief last November were appealing to many of the nation's better-paid union members. Though the AFL-CIO officially supported Carter, many among the rank and file refused to go along. In a postelection poll of working-class wards and precincts...
...good. Six years ago he started selling custom-tailored men's suits for $300 to $600. Now some time-pressed customers order clothes over the phone, confident that he knows their fit and taste so well that he can pick out a fabric and get started on the garment before they need to come in for a fitting. But his ambitions go far beyond that. "I would like to get into clothing manufacturing on a limited scale," he says. He believes that he could profitably sell the same woman's skirt that goes...
...gnomes of Zurich or to hushed discussions by corporate treasurers. Now everybody is talking and worrying about them. "I don't ever remember feeling so tense over the prime rate," says Ellen Greenfield, 27, a reporter for Women 's Wear Daily, the trade publication of the garment industry. "I follow it daily...
...content. The rest of the book is a cunning, amusing and not always pertinent decoupage of articles centering on Blount's South pole: an amusing essay on the habits of the possum; or the tale of a woman who gets stuck to a dry cleaner's revolving garment rack with Super Glue and spends her days plotting a damage suit with her attorney trotting along beside her as she goes round and round with the cleaning; or Blount's modest proposals for new mass media. One scheme would eliminate the more boring moments of life by "quick...