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...sounded like a great idea, at least to Kyu Shung Choi: a 24-hour gourmet food store on Park Avenue, at the center of one of Manhattan's ritziest residential blocks. Smelly French cheeses, bottled water, fresh vegetables and, near the back, a few of those gooey snack foods people sometimes need really late at night. And get this: there are no other food stores on Park Avenue for blocks...
...Cambridge Mayor Leonard J. Russell kicked off the marathon with speeches, although neither stayed to dance Russell gave a cash donation, while Bok promised to provide one of the marathon's 40 prizes--his presence at a gourmet lunch with the winner...
...Yuppies descend in swarms and leave nothing behind but Dumpsters filled with discarded linoleum." Some signs of imminent Yupification: forced relocation of candy stores and laundromats, the proliferation of gourmet-food stores and the appearance of disoriented bums trying to figure out why their favorite bar now has an asparagus fern in the window. Yuppies do not reside in houses or apartments but in "living spaces," often in run-down neighborhoods from which their immigrant grandparents fled. "Yuppies will live anywhere," says the Handbook, "as long as the floors are genuine parquet and there's another Yuppie...
...store. "French champagnes below wholesale!" announces Manhattan's Sherry-Lehmann, whose bargains include a Maxim's Blanc de Blancs '73 Brut reduced from $70 to $39.95. "This is the age of Aquarius for wine drinkers," says Carlo Kendrick, wine manager at Washington's Sutton Place Gourmet. "The economy is going up and prices are going down. It's a fool's paradise in the wine business cycle...
...seen in its dramatically restyled "stores of the future."No longer is the center of attention reserved for such hard goods as Craftsman tools, DieHard batteries and Kenmore appliances. Now the emphasis is on the color-coordinated, freshly fashioned displays of stylish clothes and jogging gear, modern furniture and gourmet cookware. While the likes of Bloomingdale's and Neiman-Marcus have long merchandised their wares with flair, the redesign and reorganization are a revolutionary departure for Sears. Says Joe Fragale, operating manager of the Oak Brook, Ill., store: "We had so many people think they were in the wrong...