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...because I have an attitude or want an attitude. I am sick of bookish, insecure classmates accusing me and my teammates of arrogance for wearing crew gear, talking about crew and being friends with other crew members. I wear it because I am proud of it, talk it because I like it, and choose my friends for the same reasons everyone else does. So enough with the complaints of these thinly-disguised wanna-bes. Either join up or shut...
...will his new duds look like thrift-shop entries? Of course not. Henderson's facility lies in translation, turning mid-century nostalgia into '90s gear. And he will be prowling Manhattan in search of his next muse. Or maybe exploring his personal Shangri-La, which he pinpoints as "somewhere between Carmel and Big Sur. I'd fly in. There'd be a little sports car, a couple of horses. I could see that." As he well may -- sooner than later...
After weeks of languishing in low gear, Chamorro's campaign revved up over the past fortnight. She is relying on voters' pent-up fury with ten years of Sandinista mismanagement. Inflation last year hovered around 1,700%, unemployment around 25%. Real wages have dropped more than 90% since 1981. "All she has to do is point to the Sandinista record," says Alfredo Cesar, Chamorro's chief adviser. "She doesn't have to convince anyone she's better than Daniel Ortega...
...They turned it into fourth gear and really came at us," Parker said. "We were fortunate to go into the locker room tied...
...ruinously easy to spend $10,000 to $50,000 re-creating an RKO theater in a suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry to hide the equipment. A glossy new magazine, Audio/ Video Interiors, regularly dazzles its readers with images of posh pleasure domes of sound and light. Says John Briesch, president of Sony's Consumer Products Group (USA): "The only thing that has surprised...