Word: guys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Problem: That annoying guy who stays in front of Bay Banks--or the book building of the Coop--and tries to exchange his hearty handshakes for money...
Talking more in five seconds than most healthy adults talk in their natural lifetimes, this guy is a boil on the body politic. It's for school children, he says. Stop shaking my hand, I say. No, you misunderstand me, it's for school children, he says. You're annoying, I say. School children, he explains. Shut up, I explain...
Solution: Harvard should offer a course in dealing with solicitors in the Square--something like; "Beggars 104: Vexing the Solicitor in a Post-War Industrial Economy. And Especially that Annoying Guy In Front of Bay Banks...
This course would address how to wait until the precise moment when the beggar is bothering the guy in front of you so you can shuffle past undetected. Students would also receive advanced training in various techniques of using large joy-buzzers, and how to crazy-glue that guy's hands to his cheeks...
...trip to New York City and the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute caused Lacroix to change careers. "It really reawakened my passion for clothes," says Lacroix. Showing some sketches around in Paris, he found work easily, first at Hermes, then at Guy Paulin. In 1981 the call came from Patou, where control of the firm had just passed to Jean de Mouy, grandnephew of the original designer and the third generation of his family to run the business. De Mouy was all of 29 and determined "to see that, three generations after me, it is still a family house...