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...Revlon, Avon, Estee Lauder and Benneton haveswitched to these alternative methods in the faceof animal-rights protests...
...Rayon and Orlon. They are among the neighbors Clea finds when she moves to a Vermont village and discovers that this seemingly idyllic countryside is filled with -- gasp! -- polyester. Down at Casa Loretta, they feature Spam burritos and Hawaiian pizza. The local postmistress steams open love letters, the Avon lady writes bad romance novels, and the sheriff makes pronouncements like "If you're not normal in this country, you get put in jail." Such rural New England cliches make Newhart seem like subtle satire, but Alther recycles them with such a tone of social superiority that the entire state...
Flomenhoft is a 205-lb. freshman forward from Chicago who centers classmate Matt Mallgrave and sophomore Jim Coady on Harvard's fourth line. He played his senior season at Avon Old Farm in Connecticut, the prep school that produced the Rangers' Brian Leetch, last year's NHL Rookie of the Year...
...early 20s, she joined what became the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon. She was a hit as the lanky Helena of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a role played sooner or later by most of the willowy Redgrave women; as Rosalind in As You Like It, Redgrave gave a performance many still consider definitive. In 1961, when she appeared in The Lady from the Sea, critic Kenneth Tynan said, "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear of it." By 1967 she was up for an Oscar as Best Actress for Morgan...
...advertisers with a boycott. The sponsors in turn pressured the fledgling network, which toned down its show. Animal-rights groups singled out the Draize test, in which dyes are injected into rabbits' eyes, in their effort to persuade the cosmetics industry to cut down on animal testing. Last week Avon Products announced that it would stop such experiments. Even Ralph Nader, the quintessential business basher, has adopted a more moderate approach. Nader, who last fall led the California revolt against excessive auto-insurance premiums, recently cited the auto industry and its suppliers for their joint quality-control efforts. Firestone...