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Fashion businesses like Klein's make a sizable contribution to the U.S. economy. Total apparel and accessories sales last year accounted for $91.2 billion, making fashion one of the nation's major industries. American firms exported $2.6 billion worth of apparel, making up an important segment of the balance of trade. Many corporations and banks in both the U.S. and Japan are investing in fashion houses, providing needed operating cash and funding ambitious new projects. They are, says Barry Landau, a public relations executive and friend of Halston's, "buying motion picture companies or fashion houses. These are the glamour...
...good way to find out what motivates people in the news. Sometimes it's the overlooked fact or deed that is an important part of the mind-set of decision makers." Concurs senior writer Paul Gray, who is writing Grapevine: "While these items don't in themselves make a full TIME story, they provide information and a unique view of the news." For example, who curtly dismissed the Great Wall of China as "just a pile of bricks"? And who offered to help topple Manuel Noriega on the cheap? Turn to page 27 and find...
Ironically, the degradable plastics have hurt many of the pioneering efforts aimed at recycling plastics. The additives that help make the plastics break down can weaken any products made from recycled material. Some architects who used construction panels made of recycled plastic at their building sites discovered that the products fell apart after a few months because they contained some biodegradable residues...
...tried filmmaking as an extension of his painting. Lynch's first work was a "film sculpture," a one-minute animated loop in which six people get sick over and over while their heads catch on fire. A painter who saw it commissioned Lynch to make another animated film. Lynch bought a camera and spent two months shooting before he realized the camera was broken. "It was one long piece of blurred film," he says. "But it was the weirdest thing; I wasn't one bit depressed...
CAPTION: CAN BAGHDAD MAKE THE BOMB...