Word: denims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue denim wove its way through the social revolutions of the '60s and '70s, clothing everyone from Yippies to Sun Day activists and pushing worldwide production last year to a record 750 million yds. Alas, that was more denim than there were fannies to fill it. Result: a glut of material and sharp cutbacks at the plants that make it, even though sales of jeans, jackets and other finished items have remained high. Wall Street analysts figure that U.S. production will drop this year to about 500 million...
Cone Mills of Greensboro, N.C., the world's largest producer, now runs its denim looms only four days a week instead of six. J.P. Stevens shut down half the 565 looms at its denim-making factory in Rock Hill, S.C. Foreign manufacturers are in much worse shape; they jumped heavily into denim a few years back when sales of the U.S.-made original began to soar. Hong Kong turns out a fifth of the denim it once did, Mexico is down to one mill, and Venezuela is out of the business altogether...
...that Ken and Barbie Doll have married and raised the family and presum- ably divorced, history has moved on. What wears one earring, a flannel cowboy shirt, denim jeans, and comes packaged in a cardboard closet? Gay Bob, alleged to be the first gay doll on the market. His inventor, former Advertising Executive Harvey Rosenberg, claims that Gay Bob looks like "a cross between Paul Newman and Robert Redford," and he costs $15. Rosenberg's invention is not for homosexuals alone, says an accompanying brochure: "Whether you are gay or straight, Gay Bob can help you come...
...Grease--Our sources also tell us that these three films, none of which have any redeeming value (or even prurient interest) of their own, are being combined by a Hollywood genius. The plot? Simple--a gang of singing, dancing bees takes on a gang of man-eating sharks wearing denim jackets and greased-back incisors for the rights to Laguna Beach. Or something like that...
...PLOT REVOLVES around Donny Dubrow, the proprietor of the resale ship, seemingly a one-time street punk now in his late 20s, eking out a marginal existence. Donny spends the opening minutes of the play expounding his philosophy of life and business to Bobby, a nervous, denim-clad teenager who serves as Donny's sometime-assistant and partner in petty crime. Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this...