Word: hue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hosiery industry is jubilant. "I'm looking at a 300% to 400% increase over last year," gloats Glen Greenbaum, vice president of sales for Danskin. Hue, whose lines are sold in 2,000 stores nationwide and in Canada, is up 70% since 1987. At Hermes, leggings are selling like the famous heavy silk scarves. "Even grandmothers are buying them," says a salesclerk. One reason for the popularity of the fashion is economic. As Christian Lacroix, whose palette is wild and whose prices are hair-raising, points out, "This fashion comes from the street, where young people create their own style...
...romance between a Vietnamese bar girl and an American soldier, will be coming to Broadway next year with seats costing as much as $100. Bookstores are filled with memoirs, histories, reprints and novels. This spring Harper & Row even published The Vietnam Guidebook, with advice for travelers to places like Hue and My Lai, although the U.S. State Department places restrictions on such excursions. Courses on Vietnam are staples of college curriculums...
...situation may be changing in History: Two junior professors, Hue-Tam Ho Tai and H. Leroy Vail, have been promoted to tenure in the last year. But the English Department hasn't seen the writing on the wall...