Word: bausch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars. If price is the object, the glittering Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest U.S. manufacturer of popularly priced sunglasses, offers more than 100 styles. Bausch & Lomb, the patriarch of quality shade makers, has at least 200 styles to select from. And people are not shy about choosing. Amanda Brown Olmstead, head of an advertising agency in Atlanta, has nine pairs, which she stores with her jewelry: "I change my glasses just as I change...
...have Wayfarers grafted onto his face. They became a mass pop phenomenon when Tom Cruise hid himself behind a pair in Risky Business in 1983. As a result, says Paul Brickman, the movie's writerdirector, kids are buying attitude, a "street-bad kind of look." In 1981 Bausch & Lomb produced 18,000 Wayfarers. This year the company expects to sell 600,000. Notes Gai Gherardi, co-owner of Los Angeles' posh 1.a. Eyeworks: "When a kid comes in here, he's buying that '50s mystique, that uniform. If he wants to be cool...
...American groups will participate in the 10-week international celebration of the arts, which will overlap with the 1984 Olympic Games. Scheduled to begin June 1, the festival is budgeted at $10 million and will feature London's Royal Opera, West Germany's Pina Bausch and Wuppertal Tanz Theater, film festivals, and art works from the Louvre...
...doctrine of the Real Presence, in Christian theology, is the belief that Jesus Christ is truly present, body and blood, in the bread and wine of the Eucharist: the living symbol of God among men. For Bausch's troubled priest, it becomes a metaphor for the world beyond the sanctuary, where the Real Presence must be sought among the lowliest of people and the darkest of hearts...
...Bausch suggests that the Monsignor's conversion may have to be a journey away from the priesthood to the fatherhood of the forlorn Bexley family. It is a measure of this fine first novel's catholicity - with a lower-case c- that the choice seems almost irrelevant. In or out of the collar, this Shepherd seems at last to have found his calling...