Word: kimmelization
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...field hockey, squash and lacrosse--A Walkman tape player; JOE CARRABINO, men's basketball--A 450 SL convertible and a 14-inch vertical leap; TIM PENDERGAST, men's lacrosse--A dinner out; TANIA HUBER women's ice hockey--A new kneecap; CHRIS MITCHELL, men's basketball-Playing time; TRACY KIMMEL, women's ice hockey goalie: Unlimited studio recording time and a hockey sweater; ANITA DIAZ, women's track--A breakfast in bed of bagels, cream cheese, coffee and a newspaper, LIZ WARD, women's ice hockey--A 1000-goal season; MAUREEN GILDEA, women's swim team co-captain...
...York boutique for an entire day when customers, getting wind of a fresh shipment of sweats, noisily stormed her portals. In the Chicago area, Kamali fans maintain an informal hot line on where her clothes can be found. "Kamali is going beyond anyone's imagination," says Sidney Kimmel, chairman of Jones Apparel Group, which makes her sport sweat line. "When we started getting reorders from Midwest counties not known to jump on a fad, we saw she was a universal trend." Adds Jeff Gersten, co-owner of Chicago's Sugar Magnolia boutique: "Just as there are Bruce Springsteen...
Whatever the perils of shrink or droop, they show no effect on sales. Manufacturer Kimmel figured he would do about $2 million this year in retail business. But Kamali already has grossed more than $10 million in the U.S. and eight other countries. Next year, sales could soar to $24 million. Variety may be one of the answers. No longer just humble gray, the sweats now come in stripes and seven colors. There are short cheerleader-type rah-rah dresses and skirts, harem pants, saucy knickers, long bomber jackets, and oversized sweatshirts to be worn over tights as minidresses...
...back in 1965, a dropout from the University of Arizona, Linda Ronstadt set out on the road for California, looking for the footlights and the glory of the rock world. But the beginning was a lean time; during those free-wheeling days of the mid-sixties with Bob Kimmel and Kenny Edwards as the group Stone Poneys, she was not exactly one of Capitol Records' biggest recording artists...
...with were going into a convent or getting married," she says. "I never wanted either one. I just wanted to go on the road." When she was 18, she left home and headed for Los Angeles to crash in the same house as a guitar player named Bob Kimmel...