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...danger is that Macy's will oversaturate its stores with merchandise that is exclusive but still unexciting. "Consumers don't want to go and find the same thing at every darn store," says Pam Danziger, president of Unity Marketing. Steven Keith Platt, head of a Hinsdale, Ill., retail think tank, the Platt Retail Institute, expects Federated to make deals with several well-known apparel and housewares makers to create products that consumers will find only at Macy's. Lundgren says he has already received at least half a dozen such offers but hasn't inked any deals...
...postwar American liberalism who wrote the 1963 best seller The Feminine Mystique, which explored the "sense of dissatisfaction" among midcentury women who "made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children," while secretly wondering, "Is this all?"; in Washington. Born in Peoria, Ill., Friedan--whose mother quit her newspaper job to be a housewife-- was once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made her a hero to a generation...
...their door and uses her magic to whip the brats into shape. When the children refuse to get up in the morning, claiming they have the measles, Nanny McPhee actually gives the children measles for the day. Lesson learned—with Nanny McPhee, get up or get ill. After each lesson taught, one of Nanny McPhee’s physical flaws disappears. To enlarge the slim plot into a full-length movie, Thompson—who also wrote the script—throws in a half-baked storyline involving Mr. Brown’s financial and marital problems. When...
LEON NEYFAKH ’07 of Chicago, Ill. and Currier House Editor-at-Large...
DANIEL J. MANDEL ’08 of Glencoe, Ill. and Adams House Associate Magazine Editor...