Word: silk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really relevant to the American voter that Bob Dole's father never hugged? Or that Jesse Jackson has a half-brother who is mixed up with drug dealers, murderers and terrorists? Or that the destruction of Barbara Bush's entire wardrobe of silk lingerie while her husband was in the navy "really got to her"? Or that Al Gore's candidacy "raised the possibility of a man going through a mid-life crisis while in the White House...
Democratic Conventions usually mean funny hats and bitter spats. Typically, they are ornery, out-of-control encounter sessions populated by overweight, cigar-puffing pols and eccentrically dressed activists shouting indecipherable slogans. But this affair was so organized it was downright Republican. Pearls and silk dresses were as much in evidence as bizarre headgear. No cigar haze wafted to the ceiling: the party made this its first no-smoking convention. . The aisles were crowded, but the speaker did not pound his gavel and yell for the marshals to clear them. The clusters around the states' computer terminals resembled Wall Street trading...
Even economic observers agreed that the boom in upscale business--for items like Southampton beach estates, Porsches, and $1000 silk business suits--would soon reverse itself. People would invest more cautiously, and live more modest lives. Values would change. Fewer would be able to afford extravagance for its own sake...
That someone is Rico, a drug lord from the jungles of Colombia. Rico speaks in a heavy accent and lusts for revenge and power. He dresses in silk suits and has a taste--or a smell--for cocaine...
...customers are Japanese, and the percentage climbs to 65% at the company's Rodeo Drive outlet in Beverly Hills. Europeans, who make up one-third of the clientele at Stuart Limited, an upscale six-store men's clothing chain in the Miami area, snap up $75 silk shirts and $475 leather jackets so quickly that Owner Stuart Graver can barely keep the apparel in stock. Says Graver: "They just gobble those up each time we get an order." As creative director for a Paris advertising agency, Rene Fatton, 41, lives in the world's fashion capital, yet he buys clothes...