Word: coates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each 75 cents issue sold, the salesperson keeps 55 cents, including a nickel that goes into a mandatory savings plan that can be used only to obtain an apartment. Some vendors earn more than $200 a week. After selling 500 papers, the salespeople win a bonus: a winter coat...
...over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite politics, whole-wheat pasta and the melting of the polar ice caps are all alarming, but they don't quite do the job. A lot of fictional heroes with turned-up rain-coat collars must be worrying about their pensions...
...encouraging designers to play with the unreal thing in their lines. Designer Christian Lacroix's fringed panther-print polymid shawl ($470) is hot stuff. Patrick Kelly has scored with skinny dresses in leopard stretch velvet ($340), and even purist Giorgio Armani uses mock lynx for a duffle coat in the Emporio Armani line ($685). After dark, the more the merrier seems to be the rule. Says Annie Allanche, a manager at Paris' Irie boutique: "Women are mixing leopard, tiger, giraffe and ocelot for evening...
...winter nights when the icy west wind swept the town, I sometimes halted on my post office run to talk to Russell Piper in his tiny dry-cleaning plant. The steam and heat built up a coat of ice an inch or more thick on the windows. He was a shadowy figure behind the glacial facade. But he offered a cup of hot chocolate and unquenchable cheer, even working through the night cleaning other people's grease spots. Rural culture lived through...
...benign little in-jokes like the Statue of Three Lies or pained quips about trekking to the Quad. This was a Harvard tradition like the presence of concentrations that are notoriously uncomfortable for female students, like the lack of a women's center bigger than a coat closet and the dearth of tenured women and minority faculty members...