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...opened last summer to handle the flow of business travelers to Union Carbide. A 250-room Sheraton now on the drawing boards will compete with the Hilton for Danbury's new and generally well-heeled visitors. "This is a city in transition," boasts Dyer, leaning back in a leather chair in his modern wood-paneled office. "It is becoming a white-collar community...
Sitting in his cluttered office tucked away on the third floor of the Center for European Studies, itself a secluded enclave on a quiet residential street four or five blocks from the Science Center, Schama is dressed in stylish New Wave clothes, a fashionable dress leather jacket draped over the back of his chair. His cultured British accent adding, at least to an American ear, an extra touch of grace to his already eloquent speech, Schama speaks of rock music with the same passion with which he discusses academics...
When he came back to headquarters last week, his walls had a fresh, subtle ivory tint, there were new white sofas around the fireplace, and Franklin Roosevelt's six cane-backed chairs had been re-covered in rust-colored leather. Ronald Reagan entered Phase 2 of his presidency in style...
...displaying Wall Drug signs everywhere from Antarctica to the Taj Mahal. The drugstore has even paid for advertising signs in Amsterdam, Paris and London. In the end, all these signs produce enough curiosity to attract even the most blase passerby. "I just had to stop," said a long-haired, leather-jacketed biker from Beloit, Wis., on his way to a motorcycle rally in the Black Hills. "This is all I've been reading for the past 200 miles...
Prices for the new accessories vary so greatly that almost anyone can satisfy that metal urge. In New York City, street vendors hawk bronze leather shoulder bags for $23. A similar item at New York's Henri Bendel runs $165. Metallic belts can range from $2 for a gold cinch to $200 for a Judith Leiber number with handcrafted metal buckles from Bullock's Wilshire in Los Angeles. Miami's tony Twenty-Four Collection is devoting its entire holiday catalogue to metallics, from $124 gold-sprayed straw hats to $1,800 gold-striped snakeskin jackets...