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...Laura Ashley-esque sundresses, $3!! Who cares if the seamstresses worked double overtime for 2 cents an hour in steamy firetraps gluing the corduroy cuffs on that barn jacket Exploitation Shmexploitation. Where else you can find a trendy coat for one Alex Hamilton? Besides, by purchasing that fashionable item in the PRC, you're transferring a little bit of an evil big business' 2500 percent profit to an independent Chinese small-business owner, thus funding and nurturing the growth of the nascent middle class in post-Mao China, whose soon-to-be wealthy members, in turn, will spearhead the transformation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Most Favored Nation. | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

Maxi's can boast that every item in the store costs 99 cents--$1.04 with tax. At $1.04, the detergent labelled $2.79 seemed like a bargain, while the little green lollipop did not. There are bins of 99-cent socks which smell as if they've already been worn, and crates of women's underwear, through which a middle-aged man was all too eagerly rifling as he eyed my cigar...

Author: By Michael E. Farbriarz, | Title: Close, but Crummy Cigar | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

Mini-pumpkins are also a hit item at Li'I Peach, where they sell for 60 cents. According to manager Simon H. Haidar, People buy them for their offices or their dorm rooms, then decorate or carve them...

Author: By Julie H. Park, | Title: Pumpkins: Bigger Isn't Always Better | 10/27/1993 | See Source »

...specialty of the house seemed to be edible, anatomically-correct treats. "The Breast Cake is definitely our best selling item," said Amy, one of the employees. Mara and I reluctantly decided that splurging on a cake would be kind of extravagant, so we picked up a couple of chocolate penis lollipops and headed out. Of course, the lollipops were for our friends...

Author: By Ariela Migdall, | Title: Holy Cannoli! Ricotta bliss, via MBTA | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...time we ran into City Hall Ave., we were getting kind of pooped, so we stopped for a break at a store called Brookstone. This turned out to be a great move, since the hot item at Brookstone these days is the Electric Massage-Giver. They come in every shape and size, and for all imaginable body parts. Okay, so they don't carry an electric earlobe massager. But they have just about every other kind...

Author: By Ariela Migdall, | Title: Holy Cannoli! Ricotta bliss, via MBTA | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

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