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Paris Correspondent B.J. Phillips, a recent arrival from TIME's Atlanta bureau, took advantage of the favorable rates to buy a dressing table for her new apartment. "I searched one of the famous Parisian flea markets for an antique coiffeuse," she says. "It is precisely what I wanted: a place to fix my coiffure. I found one 19th century piece in mint condition and at a good price, but it had just been bought by another American, who was paying an additional $500 to ship it to New York. Maybe the exchange rate is getting a little too favorable." Phillips...
...Dalkon Shield proved a health menace to some users, and it has been a continuing financial nightmare for A.H. Robins, which stopped manufacturing the intrauterine contraceptive more than a decade ago. Robins, whose products include Robitussin cough syrup, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea and tick collars, last week reported a 1984 loss of $462 million, giving the company a net worth of minus $128 million. Reason: the lingering and costly legal side effects of the Dalkon Shield...
...shops downstairs with her 18-year-old daughter and says that little has changed. It's still like a flea market atmosphere, but people are spending big bucks...
...that there is a ten-year waiting list for public housing. Since the $270-a-month housing allowance from welfare will not cover the cost of a New York apartment, the city absurdly winds up spending as much as $1,470 a month to put up the homeless in flea-bitten welfare hotels. Buffalo, by contrast, has 450 beds for 300 homeless, including Robert ("Pastor Bob") Timberlake's brand-new $2.2 million, 153-bed mission, all paid for by private donations. Baltimore has no city-owned shelters; 100 street dwellers are turned away every night from jam-packed private missions...
Mitsumasa Anno has been called the Escher of Japan because of his ability to trick the eye and educate the mind. In Anno's Flea Market (Philomel; $11.95), two old peasants wheel a cart across a medieval square. Horseless carriages suddenly appear in the background. A stagecoach is on display, and African explorers have arrived with a cache of ivory tusks. In Anno's crowded canvas, allusions are everywhere: the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, the paintings of Monet, the films of Rene Clair reach across the years. With his panoramic, limitless cast, this flea market constantly renews...