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...blue jeans, first mass-produced by Levi Strauss in the 19th century as cheap, durable work pants. This had nothing to do with Veblen's view of fashion as a weapon in class conflict. But when worn faded and threadbare by college students in the next century, a pah" of Levi's flashed the word that one was secure enough to dress like an underpaid ranch hand. The parody was enriched when grimy denims became the uniform of unemployed hippies, and the current irony is that designer jeans meet Veblen's criteria for conspicuous consumption. They...
Lila, the optimist of the pah", was thrilled that so many people had answered; Wallace, always the pessimist, was disappointed that so many had not. There were enough positive replies, however, to justify publication in February...
...photographed) by the Soviet secret police. But just hours after arriving in the small city of Rovno (pop. 167,000), sources say, Holbrook's traveling companion-a fellow U.S. Army attaché-was drugged, and Holbrook himself obliged to fend off an incipient blackmail scheme. The uncompromised pah- returned to Moscow immediately. In keeping with U.S. procedure in such matters, Holbrook was whisked back to the U.S., his 21-month-old assignment to the Soviet Union at an abrupt and curious...
...school in Jefferson City, Mo., Wilson knew he wanted to sell airplanes. Even then, he had the knack for dramatizing issues. He once led a strike by high school students to get a new playground. As the school board was deliberating its decision, Wilson had the school band oom-pah-pah-ing under its windows. He got the playground. He graduated in 1943 with a degree in aeronautical engineering from Iowa State University, where he was captain of the swimming team and a champion at high jinks. On the way home from a meet, he picked up a lady...
...they carry out a lengthy and teasing courtship that manages to merge the sentimentality of Lassie with the homoeroticism of Equus. Alec and the stal lion find food for each other, watch sun sets together and finally celebrate their relationship in a wild ride along the shore. Once the pah- are rescued and reach Alec's small-town American home, the film's mystical aura evaporates completely. What follows is a rehash of National Velvet...