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Sears, a once troubled company that has undergone a makeover, expects its Christmas sales to rise 5% to 6% as shoppers hunt for bargains and down-to-earth wares. "It's a homebody's Christmas," says John Costello, a senior executive vice president of Sears, whose third-quarter profits of $220 million were up 19% compared with the same period last year. "The focus will be on practical gifts as well as a few little luxuries that can make the holidays special. A new tool, a cellular phone, a bottle of perfume, and that...
Still, Mary J. Costello, a social worker for the Windsor House Adult Day Care program, has nothing but praise for the new center...
...Cambridge is really good to its elderly," Costello says...
...rely on pop-cultural allusion to limn his characters' inner lives, but uses it instead to create a rich, wry backdrop for them. His hero is Rob Fleming, an aging, contemplative slacker who owns a London record shop and enjoys rattling off lists of his top five favorite Elvis Costello songs or episodes of Cheers. When Rob's friends suggest that he should test women with a questionnaire about their favorite artists and musicians, Rob jokes that it is "intended to prevent a chap from leaping into bed with someone who might at a later date turn out to have...
...Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, lots of others offer sophisticated pleasures in a simple form. (Other pieces, played in eccentric signatures, are closer to cool jazz.) To the lyrics Garcia lent humanity with his frail tenor. "His voice was a picture of the American past," says singer-composer Elvis Costello. "You could call it sepia-tinted. It's like one of those great old Civil War pictures that is so sharp it shocks you how much detail it holds, yet at the same time it's not in color." As for Garcia's guitar playing, Costello says it "wasn...