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...every 2,300 Americans. But the chains must increasingly develop new products to set themselves off from the pack and boost sales. The public wants more variety and quality. To build evening dining traffic, some Burger King restaurants in California and other states are offering candlelight dinners on cloth-covered tables...
Elsewhere, Lurie detects a curious connection between the two most publicized American styles, preppie and punk. In their Brooks Bros, and L.L. Bean gear, preppies favor useless buckles on loafers, buttons on Oxford-cloth collars, straps on raincoats and safety pins on kilted skirts. These fastenings strike the author as powerful agents of emotional restraint. Punkers, on the other hand, leave zippers sagging, shirts unbuttoned and wear safety pins through their cheeks as though the flesh itself is literally exploding with rage. The styles may be disparate, Lurie concludes, but "both graphically convey the sense of a world...
Another Christo plan set back for the moment by red tape is wrapping Berlin's Reichstag, the former parliament building of Germany which lies on the border between East and West Germany, in cloth. "The sheer physicality of uniting Germany appeals to my interest in Eastern Europe" Christo said...
...free beer and hot dogs, except for the underprivileged school children, whose Crackerjack portions would be reduced to compensate for the loss in tax revenue. Best of all, everyone associated with the team would get to trash those tacky polyester uniforms and get into some chinos and oxford cloth...
...rats, raged through London in the summer of 1665, killing 68,500 people, a sixth of the city's population. Two-thirds fled the city, carrying the disease with them. Tiny and remote, Eyam seemed safe. But that September a village tailor received an infested bolt of cloth from London. Within a few days the tailor died. Soon dozens of others were seized by raging fever, vomiting, giddiness and excruciating buboes (swollen glands). But by the end of May the pestilence seemed to have run its course, with only 77 dead...