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...this fall, the intrepid Barnes is featuring overcoats of exotic tweeds. She is also reworking men's and women's jackets with knitted collars of complementary colors but with different, tighter weaves incorporating spandex. If this sounds a touch outré, her clients-including Saks and Neiman-Marcus-are decidedly down-to-earth, and her 1981 sales take of $2 million is positively corporate for someone who can still use a loom...
...have it. Ten things to do in Florida besides-lay in the sun. Just clip the list out, and put it away until you wake up one morning in Aunt Frieda's condo and the rain is playing bongos on the roof. While everyone else heads for Neiman Marcus and the Parrot Jungle, you'll know the esoteric spots--the places to go if you crave a Rheingold...
...within a more urgent social context: suddenly there were new subjects to explore, fresh issues for the music to explain, ideas that the rock culture itself could symbolize. That sense of unlimited possibility died in the next decade. "There was brilliant music made in the 1970s," as Critic Greil Marcus has said, "but because it had no way of linking up to grand mythic dimensions, it lacked the charge much inferior music had some years earlier...
...Brook Hollow is red this night. Hundreds of red and white balloons. Huge sprays of red gladiolas. The tablecloths are red, as are the matchbook covers with MIMI emblazoned on them. So too are the rubies surrounded by diamonds in Mimi's necklace and earrings. Neiman-Marcus allowed Mimi the run of the jewelry department to borrow anything she wanted for her ball. "It was real special," she admits...
...retailing in stores. Maxwell Sroge, a Colorado Springs-based consultant who monitors catalogue sales, expects them to reach $33 billion this year, compared with $29 billion in 1980. Consumers now can mail or telephone orders for a deluxe domestic robot ($17,500) complete with electronic pet ($650) from Neiman-Marcus, a porcelain unicorn that plays The Impossible Dream ($24.95) from World of Music Boxes or a life-size female torso made out of milk chocolate ($60) from KrÖn Chocolatier...