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Long lines and empty shelves may be common in many other parts of Eastern Europe, but the shop windows of Budapest display everything from stylish eyeglass frames and fur coats to swimming rafts and potted cactus plants. The main market near Váci Street is a colorful cornucopia of scarlet paprika garlands, pigs' heads on hooks, mounds of emerald melons and fish tanks teeming with carp...
...Sears aisles and in the catalogs constitutes a breathtaking array of how Americans are spending their money in the waning years of the 20th century. In a mixture of utility and Middle American chic, there are gas barbecues and girdles, personal computers and auto-ignition analyzers, draperies, fake-fur coats, electric generators, two-stage oxyacetylene welding outfits, lingerie, swimsuits, exercise equipment, Franklin stoves, blood-pressure monitors, telephones, 718-piece mechanics' tool sets, portable drills and socket wrenches. Sears sells queen and worker bees, dairy and livestock equipment, horse blankets and saddles and, for $1,200, a pair of majestic...
...dubs Gizmo, arrives with enough warnings to fill a Tylenol label three times over: Keep him away from water; keep him out of the light; and never never feed him after midnight. A few drops of water inadvertently fall on Gizmo, and pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!, five living fur balls fly from his body: Mogwai in fetal form. Gizmo's mutant offspring look and act like Munchkins reborn as Hell's Angels. They have disgraceful eating habits; they turn the greeting-card village into a South Bronx shambles, then send old Mrs. Deagle into fatal orbit...
When David Wolfe of Neiman's went to Rome to buy the extravagant furs that Karl Lagerfeld turns out for Fendi, he and his assistants practiced a serviceable combination of hard business, constructive gossip and applied technology. Wolfe nixed a deluxe fur that was cut like a pullover sweater because "we have to consider those big bouffant Texas hairdos. You can't expect clients to have to drag their furs over them." A dyed gray beaver jacket, with collar, pockets and cuffs furrowed like a plowed field, is "ideal for Mrs. Bowing." (All names have been changed...
...with his shock of thinning gray hair and the thick-fingered hands of a farmer, like his father's and grandfather's before him, he might pass for an immigrant long shoreman or an off-duty officer. But the appearance is what he calls "the great fur coat of attitude." Beneath it is a wary, hypersensitive poet, alive to the nuances of speech and feeling...