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...motorcades were colorful, strewn with flowers and loaded with loudspeakers blaring campaign slogans and songs. Cabinet ministers were brought from New Delhi to address rallies. An estimated $5 million was spent to give each of Congress (I)'s 576 candidates five vehicles, 20,000 posters, 200 cloth banners, 10,000 paper badges, 50,000 pamphlets and a $10,000 campaign fund. It was not a campaign for the national parliament, however, but for legislatures in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka and the northeastern state of Tripura. Nonetheless, India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
...drastic changes in the way manufacturing work is done: toward customization, away from assembly-line standards. When the citizen of tomorrow wants a new suit, one futurist scenario suggests, his personal computer will take his measurements and pass them on to a robot that will cut his choice of cloth with a laser beam and provide him with a perfectly tailored garment. In the home too, computer enthusiasts delight in imagining machines performing the domestic chores. A little of that fantasy is already reality. New York City Real Estate Executive David Rose, for example, uses his Apple in business deals...
...18th, 19th and early 20th centuries fashioned humble toys from wood scraps, nuts, cornhusks, leather, even wishbones and wax. Wendy Lavitt has culled choice examples in American Folk Dolls (Knopf; 133 pages; $14.95 paperback) from museum and private collections, including her own. Among the finds: a simple cloth child in a beautifully detailed gown, the product of someone's exquisite needlework; an Indian doll caught between two cultures, dressed in buckskin, but with a nun's veil; Eskimos in sealskin, their curved ivory faces true to tribal doll convention: smiles for the boys, frowns for the girls. These...
ENTER THE MEN of the cloth, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, into the bloody strife of Palermo. For years, Church and Mafia have made the strangest of political bedfellows. The prelates refrained from outright condemnation because the Sicilian organization was viewed as a strong conservative, anti-communist force, a supporting pillar of peasant society. The mob glady played along...
Nearly all radio disc jockeys are cut from the same cloth: polyester. For the self-consciously hip veejays of MTV, the style is leather and vinyl. Earnest and anodyne, Mark Goodman may spin rebellious new-wave video platters, but no teeny-bopper daughter would be afraid to bring him home to meet Daddy. Nina Blackwood, sultry and sloe-eyed, evokes a Los Angeles chic that contrasts neatly with Martha Quinn's preppie punk...