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With Butch Cassidy peddling popcorn and salad dressing, it was only a matter of time before the Sundance Kid got into the act. This week Robert Redford, 52, is launching a line of products and condiments in a new mail-order catalog with a Southwestern flavor. Titled Sundance, the 36-page catalog offers such Native American and regional specialties as dried wildflower bouquets ($25), chili wreaths ($36) and handmade cowboy boots...
...bard is not back at center stage in Literature and Arts A. Despite a promise in last year's course catalog, the Core is not offering a course in Shakespeare this year. This spring, though, Professor of American Literature and Language and Afro-American Studies Werner Sollors will teach a new Literature and Arts A course on "Ethnicity in Modern American Literature and Culture...
Loosening restrictions on Soviet citizens' access to foreign currencies is not just another glasnost gambit. If the Soviet Union hopes to feed itself, it must find ways of getting its moribund farming sector to perform better. Notes a senior Western diplomat: "If they could import goods from a Sears catalog, that might be a pretty good incentive...
...been a visit to Morocco in 1970; there Scully saw stripes everywhere, dyed into awnings and djellabas and bolts of cloth, not a theoretical form but a motif embedded, as it were, in the landscape. Then he moved to New York and, as he puts it in the catalog, felt driven to paint "severe, invulnerable canvases, so I could be in this environment and not feel exposed. I spent five years making my paintings fortress-like...
TWEEDS. Since its first catalog was shipped less than two years ago, Tweeds has become the spunky and surprisingly successful upstart in the crowd. Estimated revenues for the current fiscal year: $37 million. Compared with its rivals, Tweeds' offerings are typically funkier, looser-fitting and more cosmopolitan, "classics with a European twist," as Tweeds President Jeff Aschkenes, 46, puts it. Many outfits are made of linen, this year's trendy fabric, and come in offbeat colors. Examples: pleated, prewashed linen trousers ($59) available in Moroccan brown, sage, cadet or flax; and cotton- Lycra pants ($29) in the colors...