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...pepper this psycho-sexual stew with a generous dose of True West mythos (lassos, gunracks, motel notells), an ensemble cast as good as they get, honkytonk lovesongs and sets designed by Levi-Strauss, and you've got yourself a bowl of three-alarm movie-making...
...raids, denounces them "as financial transactions for the profit of the takeover entrepreneurs." He adds sharply, "They do not create jobs. They do not add to the national wealth. They merely rearrange ownership interests and shift risk from shareholders to creditors." Concurs Peter Jones, retired senior vice president of Levi Strauss and now an instructor at the University of California, Berkeley: "While we in America devote a major part of our material and human resources to promoting and fighting mergers and hostile takeovers, we are becoming less and less competitive with Japan and all the new Japans...
Part Two, "Understanding the Meaning of Signs" is a retrospective glance at semiotics' coming-to-consciousness. One has Jakobson's ode "Dear Claude, Cher Maitre," addressed to the father of structuralism, Levi-Strauss, and Jacques Derrida's "To Speculate-On 'Freud,"' acknowledging semiotics's intertextual as well as interdisciplinary legacy...
...Preppy Handbook" may no longer be a bestseller, but according to a recent survey of college students by Levi Straus & Co. the "preppy look" is still the most popular on college campuses...
They looked like kids on a high school field trip, clad in Levi's and Springsteen sweatshirts, lining up by the hundreds at the entrance to a tepee. These students, though, were Indians, and the healing ritual to which they were invited was solemnly dedicated to saving their lives...