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This year's fashion doll is Jem, with her own rock band, the Holograms, and her own theme song, "Jem is truly, truly, truly outrageous." She is related by plastic to Cricket, a talking tot ("Are we having fun or what?"), and to Barbie, the original glitz princess. Barbie's clothes alone sell more than 20 million pieces each year, making Mattel the largest manufacturer of women's wear in the world...
...management took over the firm the budding designer was told the world was not ready for Ralph Lauren. He migrated to a larger men's-furnishings company, Beau Brummel, which agreed to manufacture his original neckwear. Lauren needed a brand name and wanted something that sounded tweedy and British. Cricket? Rugby? Polo! That was it, even though Lauren had never been to a match. "We thought of everything," says Lauren . with a grin. "I couldn't call it Basketball...
...with edited nonstop action, British followers of the sport are a highlight hybrid, completely at sea among the delays of the actual event. "I didn't realize they had this many commercials on American television," said one British fan. "I've never seen so much standing around. It makes cricket seem almost action-packed...
...Hawks basketball teams and minor-league historian. "When I was a kid, I read a lot," he recalls. "History was my main subject." An adventurer "working outside official circles," he puts himself in mind of Alexander the Great, though he can also go on about Lord Nelson and Jiminy Cricket. "Who is this Jiminy Cricket?" inquired a Soviet journalist last week, and the man's eyes grew at the rate of Pinocchio's nose when he heard Turner explain, "Jiminy Cricket was a conscience of a little wooden...
...blazing, but Fleet Street was overcast. Sports pages throughout the British Isles have been strewn with black crepe. England's footballers were jobbed in the World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a substitute from Texas. At Wimbledon, Best Brits Annabel Croft and John Lloyd were sacked straightaway, and here Lloyd was quitting in a manner that seemed to cinch the national sense of failure...