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...dying, and its female customers aren't turned off--or missing in action--any more. Instead, Christmas is going to be particularly merry for Sears, in what is turning out to be a gratifying season for retailers of all stripes. Mail-order companies such as Lands' End and L.L. Bean are running out of inventory. Snootier luxury sellers such as Gucci and Prada are having to ration their high-priced goods...
...exhibit. The color of the walls has been darkening with the progression of the photographs: the first room is light gray, the next room medium gray, and this final room dark gray, set with a few giant portraits like luminous beacons in the dimness. There is Frances Bean Cobain, almost frightening with her enormous eyes. Christopher Reeve, mounted on an elaborate wheelchair, somehow looks just as much like Superman as ever. The exhibition's final statement is a long, large strip of white upon which the figure of Bill T. Jones is repeated over and over again, in different moments...
...heavily. The rise of other ad outlets, such as cable television, direct mail, niche publications and online services, means that newspaper executives may never see such rich margins again--but that does not stop them from squeezing. Many newspaper veterans feel they are living through an invasion of the bean counters--nonjournalists terrified by the loss of readers and the new forms of competition, who are willing to sacrifice long-term quality for short-term goals. "The industry is at a crossroads, and a lot of people are going to make the wrong decision," says Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor...
Sure, your parents went to Yale Law School. But your mom went to school around here, and didn't you enjoy the neon-ringed, newly-established Loker Commons when you visited? Not to mention the bean burritos...
...calling it the Blue Grass Boys after his home state, Kentucky. The group soon took on the bluegrass configuration of mandolin, fiddle, guitar, bass and banjo, paired with the near-falsetto harmonies that Monroe called his "high, lonesome sound." Bluegrass lives on across the country, including at his own Bean Blossom festival in Indiana...