Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michelle Pfeiffer, an Oscar nominee this year for Dangerous Liaisons, makes her stage debut as the grieving countess Olivia. Jeff Goldblum (The Fly) is her pettish steward Malvolio, John Amos (Roots) her drunken uncle Sir Toby Belch and Gregory Hines (The Cotton Club) Toby's companion in ribaldry, the jester Feste. Stephen Collins (Tattinger's) is the duke who desires Olivia, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money) the girl-masquerading-as- a -pageboy sent to plead his case. Among other screen and stage stalwarts rounding out the troupe is Charlaine Woodard (Ain't Misbehavin') as the merrily scheming...
...well-tanned, fine-boned man lounges on a wicker chair in the middle of a vast lawn, the picture of leisure in his long-sleeve polo shirt and cotton twill trousers. A fresh-faced young woman walks barefoot on the beach, smartly / turned out in white cotton shorts and a sleeveless blouse. A square-jawed baby boomer clad in a classic linen shirt and cotton pants gazes serenely along a shoreline as if he is planning a bright future...
...sales racked up in 1988 by L.L. Bean, still the captain of the sportswear-catalog industry. Lands' End, launched in 1963 by Chairman Gary Comer, then a 36-year-old advertising copywriter at Young & Rubicam in Chicago, sells moderately priced, well-made staples. Among them: oxford-cloth shirts ($19.50); cotton twill skirts ($32.50); and silk foulard ties ($19). One of the company's specialties is the many-pocketed canvas attache bag ($39.50), which for many people has replaced the formal, hard-sided briefcase...
...catalog keeps the conversation going. The text is often full of lengthy and technical explanations of how Lands' End products are made. Example: "At our yarn-spinning facility, every bale of cotton is inspected on both sides to insure top quality. (They end up rejecting 10% of the bales -- fussy, fussy folks...
...rangeland. McAllen lies in the Rio Grande valley, just above the Mexican border, but its architectural boot print owes more to Los Angeles than Lonesome Dove. The city is a sprawling network of commercial strips, trailer parks and low-slung shingle-and-stucco developments ringed by citrus groves and cotton fields. If you think this overworked stretch of real estate is an unlikely habitat for Africa's black rhinoceros, spending a morning with Calvin Bentsen will change your mind...