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...charged twice with statutory rape, overpower a protesting heroine who then melts in his arms; or Stanley rape his sister-in-law Blanche du Bois while his wife is in the hospital giving birth to a child in A Streetcar Named Desire. Higher up the cultural food chain, young people can read of date rape in Homer or Jane Austen, watch it in Don Giovanni or Rigoletto...
...SEAL Americans bore easily, and few know this better than Ken Chilvers, president of the Wet Seal. This hip California-based chain of 97 clothing stores has branched into sun-filled states such as Hawaii, Arizona and Florida. Revenues, $107 million last year, have climbed 972% since 1985, when the 17-store Seal was awash in debt. Last year it went public with a $37 million stock offering...
...Seal's secret: trendy merchandise is constantly turned over, while employees are handed weekly bonuses to help push it out the door. The chain's concept is "multigenerational," which in plain Valleyspeak means that gum- snapping, Walkman-toting ingenues and their miniskirted moms can sport the same fashions, from flowered denim shorts to psychedelic bikinis. "We don't just ask our customers what they want," points out Chilvers. "We spend a tremendous amount of time in the malls, in our competitors' stores. I hang around and watch what they buy, what they...
...Nature Co. is a prime example of "greentailing," or riding the wave of the environmental movement. The eco-chain started life in 1973 as one small shop near the University of California, Berkeley, campus run by a pair of Peace Corps veterans. Today the Nature Co., owned by the CML Group of Acton, Mass., has 54 stores and is moving into Europe and Japan. Sales this year are expected to hit $90 million, up 29% from...
...nephew from a sound sleep on Good Friday night to ask, according to the Senator's own deposition, "if they wanted to have a couple of beers." The three men then set out for Au Bar, Palm Beach's hottest club, thus setting in motion the chain of events that ended with the alleged rape. There they met the 29-year-old woman who later accused Smith, and Michele Cassone...