Word: items
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Annie and her partner, an English-born professional designer named Maureen Mubeem, could easily be swamped by commissions from the boutiques of Los Angeles, San Francisco and points between. But the girls avoid commercialization and limit themselves to work for friends at a flat $7.50 per item. A list of their customers reads like Who's Who in Rock; it includes the Rolling Stones, the cast of The Committee, Cass Elliott and Hair Producer Michael Butler (whose dining room is now being done over completely in Water Baby...
...citizens would overtake Americans in material prosperity. Actually, Soviet shoppers still encounter frustration searching for products that U.S. citizens find in abundance. Moscow residents these days find few eggs and little flour in the stores. They may have to try two or three shops to locate as necessary an item as a light bulb. Russia's economic leaders admit that they have fallen far short of reaching not only Khrushchev's Utopian targets for 1970, but even the more modest goals they set for themselves...
...erotic art shows, sex books, records and nightclub acts. Peeping into the future, a layout in one recent issue suggests that self-service Sexomats, patterned after Automats and offering a wide variety of dishes, could be available in the year 2000. There are also interminable "marriage mart" columns. Typical item: "Handsome businessman is looking for green widow, prepared for all manner of shameful deeds...
...turning to cheaper models, thrift-type goods and do-it-yourself repairs on their homes and autos. In a sluggish retail market, sales of retread tires, home-barbering kits and sewing machines have lately shown substantial increases. The trend has even affected holiday celebrations. Last week the fastest-moving item in many U.S. liquor outlets was Cold Duck,* a mixture of domestic sparkling burgundy and champagne that generally sells for from $2 to $3 a fifth compared with about $5 for domestic vintage champagne...
...last item in the Fainsod Report-dealing with the Faculty's relation to the Governing Boards and to other faculties-came up briefly near the end of yesterday's meeting, but the Faculty adjourned without taking action. The motion will come up at the Faculty's next meeting...