Word: manhattanization
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...moment is Stussy. Designer Shawn Stussy, 36, of Laguna Beach, Calif., has made a splash with surf-meets-rap sportswear. Stussy and partner Frank Sinatra Jr. (no relation to you-know-who) say revenues hit $17 million last year in stores from Los Angeles to Manhattan. Stussy, a former surfboard maker, started his business in 1982 by transferring surfboard graphics to T shirts and shorts...
...Mozart bicentennial ranges far beyond Manhattan. On the same day that the "Haffner" was resounding in Lincoln Center, Mozart's "Prague" Symphony poured forth in Prague, and nine other European cities chimed in with concerts of their own. Then all 10 performances were broadcast in sequence over a continentwide network, so that Europeans with grandiose Mozart plans of their own could start their celebrations...
Most remarkably, a limited Desert Storm economy is springing up. Companies have boosted production of war-related books, maps, computer games, T shirts, yellow ribbons, American flags in all forms and just about anything red, white and blue. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, the brand-new Stars & Stripes boutique drew crowds eager to buy Ralph Lauren coffee mugs (price: $40), leather bomber jackets ($500) and beach towels sporting Old Glory. Suddenly teenagers are wearing camouflage pants...
...shutdown of European travel may cut off Pan Am's last hope of surviving Chapter 11 proceedings. Last week TWA laid off 1,360 of its 6,800 flight attendants and about 100 of its 3,300 pilots. Companies are even curbing travel to innocuous U.S. destinations. Said a Manhattan businessman: "I wouldn't even fly to Kansas or Fort Worth right now. I simply don't believe in taking unnecessary risks...
...sights on America, with his first Hollywood film, Green Card. In this featherweight comedy he is a French musician looking for residence status and finding love and sweet sorrow with Andie MacDowell in exotic Manhattan. For Depardieu, though, the piece is just a five-finger exercise. Director Peter Weir, who wrote the film for the actor, is looking for charm -- any star can manufacture that -- without Depardieu's scary power. The bear is reduced to a puppy...