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...most famous being Maija Isola, who by the time she died in 2001 had created more than 500 prints for Marimekko. She was able to mastermind an astonishing range, from the intricate and folkloric Ananas (1962)?which remains one of the most popular prints for the home market???to the radically simple, dramatically enlarged, asymmetrical Unikko poppy (1964), originally in red and in blue, which may be one of the most widely recognized prints on earth. "I think Unikko stood out immediately, and it somehow hit the world," says Isola's daughter Kristina, 62, a Marimekko design star...
Gold enthusiasts haven't had a bull market??to crow about in more than two decades, but we're in one now. The price of an ounce has zipped past $600 for the first time in 25 years. Gold-mining stocks have doubled since early 2003, and most pros expect more gains--for mining stocks and the metal itself...
Nothing sinister here; no conspiracy to impose the melodious common denominator. Like any thriving business, Broadway creates a product to satisfy a market. Just now the market???the tourist from Tokyo, the matron from Larchmont, the executive with a visiting client and some free time ?appears satisfied to sample the easy pleasures of a revue, a revival, another ho-hummable show. "If you want to know why musicals do so well so long," says Neil Simon, "just walk down Fifth Avenue. All you hear are foreign languages. Musicals they can understand." Adds Joseph Papp, who as head...
...heart valves rather than vacation houses? The market system provides the most democratic answers. Rather than a government planner's dictating what a society should produce, consumers themselves decide what they buy. They vote in the marketplace. This is not invalidated by the fact that the votes?and the market???can sometimes be manipulated. Capitalist bosses, for all their power, have far less real sway over people than Communist planners...
...over coat, even in midwinter. In the office he is almost always on the phone, speaking with financial executives, economists or prominent politicians. He studies practically none of the research reports churned out by Wall Street's securities analysts ? which he claims have value mainly in a bull market???but colleagues consider him to be "the best chart reader in the business...