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THE WET 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...
The 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...
Bad, which contains nine other tunes besides I Just Can't Stop Loving You (or ten, counting a bonus tune on the CD), further compounds the confusion. Like some fine-tuned racing car, it kicks up a lot of its own dust. The album's first video, a stinging 16...
Basically a "Revenge Of The Rarified Nerds," Function is a tale of social scatology. The hero, Gilbert Chilvers (Michael Palin of Monty Python fame), is a man shat upon. His story is a struggle for status, which in the throes of postwar means meat All the town aristocrats are dining...
...part of it. Here it is 1947, and what with food rationing and the gentry hoarding giblets in their attache cases, Joyce can't get a decent piece of meat. Not, at least, until Betty comes to visit. A plump sow with a sweet disposition, Betty is the Chilverses' ticket to burgherhood--if only Gilbert can bring himself to slit the throat of his new companion. "It's not just pork. It's power," Joyce tells her sweet, weak husband. "Kill your friend!" Can he resist Joyce's way with the whip--especially when she is so erotically commanding...