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...market when strangers begin offering stock tips--when everyone and their mother is talking about IBM, AT&T, and Boeing, it's time to sell. About ten months ago, everyone and my mother began talking about "grunge." My mom asked if I wanted to order some "grungy-style" flannel plaid shirts from LL Cool Bean, and fashion designer Donna Karan came out with a line of grunge wear so that Upper West Siders could look as liberal as they feel. It was time to sell...
...decade of depression and four years of war, the nation was hell-bent on normality. Neither the Korean conflict nor McCarthyism could distract Americans from their rush to claim a place in the rapidly expanding middle class. The standard rerun of the period features sincere men in gray flannel suits and contented women in kitchen aprons smiling at Mr. Clean. And why not? Coincidentally or not, he looked a lot like their amiable President, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...collective maw was too full to say anything. The "togetherness" theme played endlessly by McCall's magazine was a merchandiser's dream: the family as a consuming unit. Not everyone was satisfied. Halberstam's dissenters include Sloan Wilson, who popularized the rat race in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Betty Friedan, whose The Feminine Mystique, along with Goody Pincus' birth-control pill, challenged traditional relations between men and women...
...hand we were dealt." In April he convened the much ballyhooed "Timber Summit" in Portland, where he promised to break the gridlock. Clinton set up three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower and see the Willamette River and Mount Hood in the distance. Their mission was simplified in the slogans that often flitted across their computer terminals. One message read, "It's the fish, stupid!" Another...
...casual prep values comfort. He wears afaded flannel dress Campbell shirt and jeansgingerly slid below his waist. Of course, he's gotthe overstretched sweater naturally peppered withholes (Don't use scissors. It's too obvious).Then, there's the white Syracuse lax baseball capcocked at a rakish angle and suede moccasins worndown (absolutely no socks). Accessories: wovenstring bracelets, beer pong paddle sticking out ofback pocket...