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...more to fantasy than memory, but it is a theme that has grown more powerful as the pace of change picks up. At a time when the search for Real Life is becoming a marketing tool, when Coors promotes itself as the Last Real Beer and cotton is the Fabric of Our Lives, a lot of towns are realizing themselves, deciding it is easier to restore an evocative Main Street than to build one from scratch...
Rips in the Fabric...
...came to Harvard in 1943 from Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the upstate Adirondacks, where tuberculosis patients flocked to take the cure in health resorts--"people with tuberculosis were our industry-like a steel mill or a fabric mill," he says. Mack left just before antibiotics developed during the war crushed the town's economy beyond repair...
...silhouette. Designers like Jill Stuart prefer a sweater. "A jacket is too hard for this collection," Stuart says. And while the dresses are soft, they're not always simple. A Chinese influence runs through many collections, evident in such touches as embroidery and delicate, frond-like decorations in the fabric. The cool looks could turn it into a hot summer after...
...There was a time when American icons influenced history by their strong moral leadership. Today they are predominantly career bureaucrats, par-tisan activists, shallow entertainers, mediocre musicians, salvation gurus, shock artists and others who make a living dredging the murky depths of society. In a society where the social fabric is frayed and there is little role for human values, any icon that people can cling to seems a good one. The process that makes most of your list influential is the same one that makes people join crazy cults that promise instant family, instant society, instant salvation. There were...