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...about $900 million. This year (no sunnier than last) the market will grow by 25%, adding up to more than a billion dollars. Never before has there been such a phantasmagoria of shapes, sizes, colors and prices: python, polka-dotted and zebra frames, champagne, vermilion and espresso-colored lenses, asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars. If price is the object, the glittering Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest U.S. manufacturer of popularly priced sunglasses, offers more than 100 styles. Bausch & Lomb...
...Pain (Holyoke Center): Yes, it's the same fare that the little carts in the airports offer although you can get the croissants warm. The coffee is strong and a good buy at 50 a cup, although the cappucino and espresso aren't terrific. Outdoor seating in newly bohemain Holyoke Center draws crowds--watch for the break dancers and the jazz players. Coffee Connection (The Garage): Boasting a list of international brews longer that the course catalogue, the Coffee Connection is for the serious connoisseur who knows what he she wants. If you're stymied, try the Brazilian and branch...
...extravaganza, a twelve-day Bacchanalian Trip organized by Compagnia Italiana Turismo (CIT), meets guests at the Rome airport and deposits them, twelve vinous days later, at the Turin airport. The $698 immersion includes hotels, unlimited wine bibbing, visits to vineyards and cellars in the major winegrowing areas, and espresso and sympathy the mornings after...
...home pasta master, the greatest thing since tomatoes* has been the pasta machine, manual (around $40) or electric ($250). American Best Coffee, Inc., which added a single pasta machine to its line of espresso machines in 1977, now sells 24 models, ranging in price from $500 to $70,000. Still, many purists prefer the ritual of making pasta fresca, fatt'a mano (freshly made by hand). At classes like the one taught by Arlene Battifarano at Manhattan's New School, flour-smeared students happily echo, "Fold, push, press, turn! Fold, push, press, turn!" as they attack alps...
Goalie Peter Walsh, who for most of the game might as well have been sipping espresso at the café Pamplona as standing in the net, nevertheless proved flawless on the rare occasions when he was tested. Ben Erulkar, who last year switched off with Walsh, filled in during the last 15 minutes of the contest. Ford said he has not yet decided who will start in net against Columbia, adding that "We have great faith in both of them...