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What angers U.S. and European officials is not the marketing prowess of Japanese exporters, but the complex regulations that hamper foreign businessmen in Japan. Examples abound. An American maker of aluminum baseball bats was developing a good market for his product until the Japanese softball association ruled that his bats could not be used in tournament play. Reason: the label stamped on them supposedly made them defective. Companies selling products in aerosol spray cans complain that their cans must be 25% thicker in Japan than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, the outfit that inspects the incoming aerosol products...
Gifted artisans, who abound in the land of Disney and tinsel, labored at arcane specialties. Among them: Decorative Painter Frank Baumann, 71, who plied his trade in the lavish 1930s movie theaters, and German-born Karl Mindermann, 51, a silversmith. Baumann took charge of the delicate brushwork while Mindermann worked on recoppering the dome. Sculptor Michael Casey walked in one day to see what was going on and ended up plastering walls and ceilings-sometimes with cake-decorating tools. Says Mathews: "There is talent and skill left in this country like you can't believe...
...heard much about El Salvador? Not this fall, if you read major U.S. newspapers, or listen to the networks, or look for demonstrations. For a few months, the reports of atrocities were regular; now it takes a full-scale massacre to get an inside column in The Times. Reasons abound for the sudden lack of interest; the list, though, does not include improvements in the El Salvadoran situation, which seems largely unchanged...
...luxury items will roll up an estimated $40 million in sales this year, and L.L. Bean's collection of popular outdoor gear will likely enjoy revenues of $165 million. But catalogues have also become a way for ambitious business people to get started in retailing, and success stories abound...
GREAT LINES still abound, of course. Anyone who could construct the following commentary on Proust obviously had not lost it all. "In Steinberg's judgement--and he buttresses it with a formidable array of interior evidence from the work--Proust's Madeleine was in reality a matzo ball, and the past unfolded itself to the Master as he sat hunched over a bowl of chicken soup in Flambaum's, the famous kosher restaurant in Paris..." And, almost invariably, the Perelman opening moves are as fine as always. For example, the beginning of "All Precincts Beware--Pater Tigress Loose...