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...interest in families and education. There the similarities end, and they are definitely not using the same hairdresser. Murray, known as the mom in tennis shoes in 1992 when she won office in the year of the woman, could be in a Wheat Thins commercial or an Eddie Bauer catalog; Smith looks like she's just come from Talbots and is on her way to accept the Dry Cleaning Woman of the Year award...
Second, commerce. Business has always driven computer technology forward, and this continues to be true with the Web. The Web has enabled customers and companies to be connected across distances in an immediate fashion that catalog stores could never do. The primary business that can be done on the Web by the average Joe Sixpack is to visit an on-line store, discount products site or auction...
Young fans will no doubt swoon, but some parents, like Ted Fishman of Chicago, are a bit alarmed by the merchandising mania. His 10-year-old daughter Elly has already circled half the inventory in the latest catalog for her holiday wish list. "These dolls are supposed to represent wholesomeness and frugality," he notes wryly. But slave girl Addy's ironstone compote set ($50) "costs more than a real set would." In that way, at least, these dolls are thoroughly modern...
...They are vessels that you walk into," says Serra. Well, yes, if vessel means ship rather than pot. They hark back to, and in a sense make concrete, a vivid childhood memory that is quoted in the show's catalog. Serra's father worked in a California shipyard, and the son got to see large new craft being launched. "It was a moment of tremendous anxiety," Serra wrote in 1988, "as the oiler rattled, swayed, tipped and bounced into the sea, half submerged, to then raise and lift itself and find its balance. The ship went through a transformation from...
...join the new globally enlightened class on campus, you may have to lose your meat-eating ways. You may even have to abandon your North Face equipment and start subscribing to the J. Peterman catalog. Drastic changes can be quite unnerving, but considering how fixed our lives become once we've begun our journey to college graduation, an image makeover is probably easier than changing concentrations...