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...Minn City (formerly Saigon): platform shoes. In contrast to 1980, when the markets held little except black-market cigarettes, the stores were packed with shoppers and a limited range of merchandise. Instead of exhortations from Ho Chi Minh, display windows at the Hanoi general department store contained wicker furniture...
...slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost a total of $18.3 million...
...firm, predicts that sales will be up 20% over last December led by bestsellers "with the style and flair," like gold lace blouses $600 apiece. Gucci has leather jeans at $500 a pair, while Doney's café on the Via Veneto is finding buyers for a $100 wicker basket holding only a bottle of champagne, a toy dog and a small package of chocolates...
...Practice is a sunshiny New York institution that practices the latest feline medicine. The smell of incense masks cat aromas in a waiting room of wicker, blond wood, indestructible cushions and soft music. An office visit is $30, and a complete workup on a cat, with blood and other tests, can cost $100. Owner Dr. William H. Sullivan, 37, like many vets, credits the cat's fabled healing power for its customary good health. The skin of the cat heals so fast that one common complaint is abscess: the skin is repaired before the infection beneath has cleared...
...Heel spirit does not impinge upon UNC's fine academic environment. Although many other Southern institutions would refute Time magazine's assertion that UNC is the South's best university, remember that Walker Percy, John L. Clive (Kenan Professor of History and Literature), Charles Kuralt, Tom Wicker, and Thomas Wolfe graduated here. Andy Griffith is also among the school's illustrious alumni, and rumour claims that nearby Siler City provided the basis for the legendary town of Mayberry...