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...participated, and from noon until dusk, an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people traversed the blocked-off sections of JFK and Brattle streets. Vendors competed for the attention of the crowd by displaying such exotic wares as hand painted shirts, Indian mirrored bags, Alpaca wool sweaters, Kenya bags, cloth from Thailand, Nepal, and China, and hand-sewn bags from Colombia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eighth Oktoberfest: Many Sales, No Ales | 10/14/1986 | See Source »

...damaged insulation will be removed today, said George W. Weinert, deputy director of environmental health and safety at Harvard. Removal is advisable when the paint and cloth seal covering the asbestos becomes broken, as it did in these cases, he said...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Asbestos Found in Yard Dorm | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...pages; $18.95 cloth, $7.95 paper...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: An Insubstantial Book | 9/25/1986 | See Source »

...most discomfiting fashion revelation for first-time Lauren buyers may be his lofty prices: $67.50 for basic oxford-cloth shirts, $130 for terry-cloth bathrobes and $338 for cashmere sweaters. One aim of that upscale pricing strategy is to maintain consumer prestige. Cagey shoppers can pick up Lauren's seconds and overstocks for 30% to 70% discounts at his factory-outlet stores, which are situated in such discreet locales as Appleton, Wis., and Tijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...three-story stage, with its doors and windows and stairs and balcony, serves as the set. The actors do not divert the apparent meaning of the text. This season's As You Like It does not put its actors in clown face or rely on a piece of white cloth to stand for everything from snowflakes to a marriage tent, as the Royal Shakespeare Company has done. Nor does Ashland's Measure for Measure turn the chaste novice nun Isabella into a marriage-minded maiden, winking at having got her man, as New York Shakespeare Festival Director Joseph Papp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Only 2,500 Miles From Broadway | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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