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This month, in the holiday-gifts section of the Stein Mart in Charleston, S.C., a musical fish could be heard singing Christmas carols across the aisle from a miniature fountain retailing at $24.97. Both gadgets promise to be top sellers this season. But unlike the $19.97 Big Mouth Billy Bass, the desktop waterfall may outlive its novelty status, drawing on ancient themes to soothe a stressed...
What's fueling the estimated $150 million miniature-fountain business is the buying power of America's graying population. "Baby boomers will do anything to keep from aging, and stress makes you look and feel old," says Paulette Abraham, marketing director of industry leader HoMedics, based in Detroit. The company, which also sells foot massagers and therapeutic magnets, began mass-marketing Chinese-made fountains last August. It offers 25 designs ranging from $20 nightstand models to $250 slate water walls 4 ft. high. The waterworks aren't always a hit with the younger crowd. This summer a 26-year...
...include, among other things, Day-Glo marbles and colored lights. Some models are decorated with picture frames, others with spinning balls. There's even a dizzying version of a water-based Lava lamp. Conair, known more for its hair dryers than its home-spa products, is developing a fountain with water flowing over a 3-D photograph of--you guessed it--flowing water. "It's reinvent or die," says Abraham. "That's the only way to keep a trend like this going...
...Roger Altman's new ensemble comedy. In overcast Texas the clouds routinely open up, drenching the all-star cast, which includes Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Liv Tyler and budding starlet Kate Hudson. In fact, a source of water can be found in nearly every scene, be it an ornate fountain at the mall, a chirping sprinkler on a golf course, or a calm pond in the woods. As such, water gives the movie a sense of coherence. Which is good, because the plot certainly doesn...
...acres filled with looming oak trees, flower gardens, a fountain and a gazebo, Dickey House combines the convenience of a hotel with the intimacy of a B and B. The three rooms in the mansion and four suites in cottages on the grounds are all equipped with private bath, TV and VCR, and are decorated with elegant Victorian antiques...