Word: high-fashion
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...Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers to the back door with bundles of high-fashion castoffs to sell now bring them by in person and stick around to shop...
Many readers will not have the stomach to get past the middle. By that time, the novel's narrator, Patrick Bateman, is in full graphic babble about his adventures as a serial killer. With knife and pistol, he dispatches pets, children, high-fashion colleagues and ragged beggars. These are only warm-ups for what the M.B.A. monster does to women with nail gun, power drill, chain saw and, in a scene that should cause the loudest uproar, a hungry rodent. Those who are interested in the gobbets can exercise their rights as free American consumers early next year -- that...
...nightclub, the crowd gathers around the dance floor to watch a group called the House of Extravaganza do its stuff. The dancers, dressed in outrageous outfits, wave their hands languorously in time with the music, suck in their cheeks, stare icily into space and strut as if they were high-fashion models on the runways. Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing...
CINDERELLA FOOD OF THE YEAR Discovered to be a crunchy ally in the dietary war against cholesterol, previously unglamorous oat bran has experienced a jump of 600% in sales this year for the Quaker Oats Co. alone. Health buffs are sprinkling this supposed miracle on virtually everything, even high-fashion muffins. Only the farmers seem unenchanted. Oat bran still brings a far lower price than corn and barley, and so is not likely to be given more acreage...
...Smaller operations tend to have higher turnover in general," DiGiovanni added. "Your larger locations won't turn over as easily, since larger investments are involved." He said he found Festivo's more attractive as a tenant because the owner's line of high-fashion clothing aimed at the college market would sell better than candy in Harvard Square...