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...merry month of mall hopping, a season of spending all the money that has been larded away -- and then some. But wait: this may not be Christmas as usual. America's jingle-jangle shopping spree seems muffled so far this year. As customers browse among the cashmere sweaters and compact-disc players, many are having doubts not only about this month's expenditures but also about their whole philosophy of buy, buy, buy. The October stock-market crash and the likelihood of an economic slowdown next year have rekindled the feeling that Americans must reform their spendthrift ways. "Consumers...
Late-night music afficianados will have a new place to plunk down cash when Tower Records opens its store at 360 Newbury St. on Saturday. Offering records, tapes and compact discs products, the store will be open from 9 a.m. to midnight on Monday through Saturday, and from noon to midnight on Sunday, every day of the year...
Perhaps the biggest question is what position Sony will take in the controversy over a new technology called digital audio tape, which can record music with the clarity of a compact disc. CBS Records had been a leading advocate of limiting the technology, contending that it would prompt more home taping and pirating, while Sony has pushed DAT as the next wave in home audio. Now the company will have an interest in both arguments. Experts believe Sony may support a compromise, in which DAT recorders would be permitted in the U.S., but would be equipped with devices designed...
...required job skills for presidential candidates. The Republicans, like the Democratic candidates a few weeks earlier, were articulate, amiable, pat, well coached and sincere as all get-out. It should have been more impressive. Hubert Humphrey or Dwight Eisenhower or Lyndon Johnson would never have been able to compact his message into two minutes -- each was a rambler -- but they were abler politicians than this lot. When performance on television is the chief criterion, two preachers such as Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson, who have never drafted legislation, governed a state or even served on a city council, seem just...
Well, there is help. Just make a quick phone call, and a compact van, stocked with thousands of solutions, will arrive at your door. A driver- decorator (98% are women) will survey the immediate problems and analyze whether your inclinations are in the formal, casual, transitional or luxurious mode. Then, presto! Out from the van can come decks of fabric swatches, wheels of paint chips, pages of wall coverings, rows of baked tiles, furniture catalogs -- even lamps and statuary. For customers who like things fancy, there are silk screens, antique engravings, custom-framed landscapes and Old Master reproductions -- a Degas...