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...have 107 "stores of the future," which will depart sharply from its traditional selling places. They have a friendlier, more welcoming look than the Sears stores of old, with more aisles, lower ceilings and merchandise displayed with flair and style at eye level. Fashion labels with big names-Arnold Palmer, Joe Namath, Diane von Furstenberg, Johnny Carson and Evonne Goolagong-stare back at the customer. To make self-service shopping easier, products will have clearer, more informative labeling. A new cash-register system decreases the average check-out time from three minutes to 90 seconds...
...hope for brotherhood, understanding and dialogue," says Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee. What else would he say? "The Olympics are the only times in the history of the world when so many nations come together in one spot in an association of friendship," says Charles Palmer, president of the British Olympic Association. Vested interest. According to Kurthan Fisek, a professor of public management from the University of Ankara, "No single institution in the entire history of mankind has been able to equate itself with world peace as effectively and consistently." Let's not get carried away...
...Palmer tells us that the song Satisfaction "works as a classic rock single," but on another level "asserts that tensions and frustrations are inherent in a capitalist society with consumerist values." He concludes...
...Would Palmer have us read mid-'60s Stones lyrics side by side with The Communist Manifesto and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte? Will future courses of Marxism ask students to explain the relevance of the line. "He can't be a man cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me," to Marx's Alienation and Social Classes? For extra credit, what's the difference between Marxism and quasi-Marxism? Or post-modernist Marxism as developed in the sexual-political imagery of "She's so cold...
...POINT IS SIMPLE: the Stones are a great rock band--maybe the greatest ever--but they don't demand or deserve treatment on a serious intellectual level. Mick's misogyny, and Keith and Brian's juvenile glorification of the drug scene are beneath contempt, but Palmer almost applauds their nasty habits and in fact seems to wish he himself could get away with doing all of the drugs Mick and Keith...