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...asymmetric cat's-eyes and jewelry-bedizened sun helmets that cost thousands of dollars. If price is the object, the glittering Optica shop in Beverly Hills has a pair for $35,000. Foster Grant, the largest U.S. manufacturer of popularly priced sunglasses, offers more than 100 styles. Bausch & Lomb, the patriarch of quality shade makers, has at least 200 styles to select from. And people are not shy about choosing. Amanda Brown Olmstead, head of an advertising agency in Atlanta, has nine pairs, which she stores with her jewelry: "I change my glasses just as I change my earrings...
...have Wayfarers grafted onto his face. They became a mass pop phenomenon when Tom Cruise hid himself behind a pair in Risky Business in 1983. As a result, says Paul Brickman, the movie's writerdirector, kids are buying attitude, a "street-bad kind of look." In 1981 Bausch & Lomb produced 18,000 Wayfarers. This year the company expects to sell 600,000. Notes Gai Gherardi, co-owner of Los Angeles' posh 1.a. Eyeworks: "When a kid comes in here, he's buying that '50s mystique, that uniform. If he wants to be cool...
...making investment decisions, Talley goes far beyond detailed statistical analysis. She interviews company executives to "get a feeling for the management," sometimes called woman's intuition. She was among the first analysts to recommend Bausch & Lomb and MGIC Investment Corp. before their rises. Talley is now investing mostly in small companies with special kinds of markets because their profit growth is not monitored by Phase II regulators, and they often have no real competition...
Some investors are beginning to worry that the initial stock market euphoria has gotten out of focus, and Bausch & Lomb stock has retreated more than 20 points from its 1971 high of 147. At prices like those being charged by ophthalmologists in Portland-$325 to $400 a pair, or about twice the cost of some hard lenses-big demand for Softens may prove to be an optical illusion...
Still, there are plenty of optimists among U.S. ophthalmologists. It is within their ranks that the battle between hard and soft will be won or lost-because contact lenses are dispensed by prescription. While some ophthalmologists and optometrists bridle at the wholesale prices that Bausch & Lomb is charging them-about $100 a pair-others have become zealots. "I intend using the soft lenses on every patient I possibly can," said Dr. Mary Young, who maintains a 3,000-patient-a-year optometrical practice in Braintree, Mass. Until she tried on a pair herself at a Bausch & Lomb seminar last week...