Word: minke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy's boisterous recovery has put shoppers in the mood to buy the best and the brightest, from $600 home computers to $300 cashmere bathrobes. At Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, customers have already taken home 2,300 pairs of mink earmuffs at $85 each. According to Lien Dang, a Neiman-Marcus sales clerk in Houston, consumers want "something wild, something different, something out of this world...
...doing well. Among the most wished-for ursines are American Greetings' Care Bears (about $20), which the company produces in a range of models from sleepy to grumpy. Macy's stores in Northern California expect to sell out their entire population of 50,000 stuffed bears, including mink ones priced at $200. The trendy board game Trivial Pursuit (price: $25) is hard to find in stores, and even sales of Monopoly are up about 10% from last year. Thanks in part to booming sales of G.I. Joe dolls, stodgy Hasbro Industries, which stayed out of the videogame wars...
...cars with ropes hundreds of feet long, and then stood there grinning and drinking. Fifty-year-old business honchos got mud on the knees of their gray flannels playing touch football among the parked cars and joshed one another loudly about bifocals and bald spots. The older wives wore mink, and the younger wives wore ski sweaters and down vests. They helped with the elaborate tailgate picnics everyone brought, but otherwise stood somewhat aside from the gamboling with their plastic cups full of Chablis. The two colleges have been coed for well over a decade, but the woman grads...
...would want to have and touch and play with because it's so pretty." So he had a leather handgrip fashioned for a .38-cal. Colt revolver at his workshop in Florence, inlaid the cylinder with 56 grams of 24-karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch in a Baccarat crystal case embossed with the customer's name. Bijan's own signature is engraved in gold on the shank of the gun. It is the perfect accompaniment to his line of bullet-proof clothing. "Gucci," he says with evident pride, "never did gold pistols...
...Friday-afternoon company-sponsored beer busts in the company cafeteria. By contrast, Dallas-based Mary Kay Cosmetics seeks more of a frills-and-lace image. Each year, at lavish seminars, the top producers among the firm's virtually all-female sales force are awarded pink Cadillacs, diamonds and mink coats...