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...three haunt another emporium, the Cat's Paw. In this posh pornography boutique on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the dirty magazines and sexual implements are tastefully displayed. There Kelly makes her re-entry into journalism by interviewing a peep-show dancer who is addicted to fan magazines. Billy, in a Scotch-fueled search for campaign issues, settles arbitrarily on pornography. In an alcoholic blackout, he destroys mirrors and private movie booths with a chain. Amid the shambles, Jennings advises him to tell the authorities, "You did it on purpose...
...most prominent local emporium, Neiman-Marcus, says no to the last, but to all those other questions their buyers would probably like to have one collective answer. It would be much the same answer that Bloomingdale's or Saks Fifth Avenue or Bergdorf Goodman might give to anyone who asks, and it is an answer that has very little to do with a store's size. Small, sharp, selective boutiques all over the country, from Maxfield in Los Angeles to Alan Bilzerian in Boston, would reply the same way as the behemoth down the block: the customers should...
...cash registers fall quiet on Saturday night, retailers expect to see a holiday season sales gain of up to 15% over last year. This would make 1983 the strongest Yule since 1977, and even that could turn out to be a conservative prediction. Says Esther Brunswig, manager of the Emporium-Capwell department store in Palo Alto, Calif.: "We're going to have the biggest Christmas ever. Everything is selling." Merchants ranging from Gucci in Beverly Hills to the McRae's department store chain in Jackson, Miss., are ringing up their highest daily revenues on record. Last week...
...exhausted from trying to keep up with their ravenous clientele. "It has been so fast we've had to bring people in as early as 5 a.m. to restock the shelves," groans E. Erick Gaither, manager of a Sears store in Tucker, Ga. At Palo Alto's Emporium-Capwell, employees are often so harried they forget to take their breaks. Said Heidi Thomas, a clerk in petite women's wear: "Last Saturday we were swamped. A lot of shoppers had clothes draped over their arms. I was so busy I couldn't handle...
Such exposures eventually cooled the public passion for made-to-order miracles. But, as the author acutely notes, it will not do to dismiss the Victorian period as a simpler time, when the naive were easily swayed by con men and shadowy ladies. Today every paperback emporium offers tiers of books claiming intimate acquaintance with the text of the future and the leaders of the past. Thanatologist Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross tells followers she speaks with the dead. A new edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than...