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...just the tip of the iceberg. Virtually every successful clothing store or catalog offers the same thing as the Gap. J. Crew is mail-order Gap. Tweeds is mailorder Gap with more patterns. Lands' End is mail-order Gap for more conservative dressers. L.L. Bean is mail-order Gap with plaid and boots. Bennetton is Gap with brighter colors. The Limited is Gap with more design. Banana Republic, which is owned by the Gap, is Gap with more pockets and more khaki...
...Mass. Ave. branch of the ice cream chain that created flavors like sombrero and vanilla bean speck closed last Friday, to be replaced by an Ultimate Bagel Company store...
...into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia and yellow tunnels. Youngsters up to 12 balance on a rope walk or on a webbed "bean field," a bouncy surface with punching bags that hang above it within a child's grasp. A nearby concession offers turkey dogs, pizza, and carrot and celery sticks...
Perhaps the most jubilant award winner was Alan Kligerman, who received the Medicine Prize for his invention of the anti-gas potion Beano. He talked enthusiastically of his serious product, accompanied by by low cries of "Bean-o! Bean...
...small, usually consisting of 10 to 20 designers, most of them American (10 of 13 at Mazda, all 20 at Mitsubishi). Because their headquarters are thousands of miles away, the designers stationed in California exist in splendid -- and creatively productive -- isolation, relatively free from the kill-joy scrutiny of bean counters, marketing drones and engineers. "After a year in the U.S.," says Gerhard Steinle, chief of the Mercedes studio, "I see how important it is to be away from the factory...