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...last year, to nearly $1 billion. Old World Moulding & Finishing, a Farmingdale, N.Y., manufacturer of some 500 different kinds of moldings, reports that its 1986 sales topped $1 million, an increase of nearly 90% in one year. Marvin Windows, a Warroad, Minn., firm that makes custom-made windows and patio doors for the expensive-home market, has had record sales every year since 1982. The company has been swamped with orders for windows in the shapes of circles, ovals, stars, footballs and hearts...
...There may be a lesson in the fact that Richard Tuttle's three tiny, delectable pieces made of painted cardboard, scraps of wood and bits of twisted wire "carry" every bit as sharply as Judy Pfaff's enormous mural, which looks like a vastly inflated Frank Stella made of patio furniture. But at least the stage props of Deep Authenticity are less wearisomely apparent in this show than they used to be. The sound of breaking plates is distant, like the hunter's horn in Giselle: though Julian Schnabel, on the evidence of a work like Mimi...
...started 13 years ago. My education was in marketing. I worked in nurseries in high school and college, but I didn't think there was any money in it. That has changed. Nurseries are no longer just horticultural outlets. We have a patio shop, a Christmas shop, a florist, crafts, a do-it-yourself shop. This generation now, such better buyers! We have a diagnostic service with two horticulturists, a do-it-yourself design shop. After the war and Victory gardens, horticulture died, as far as I'm concerned. Then the back-to- the-landers brought vegetable gardening back...
While recovering from a debilitating stroke -- suffered in part, says Julie, because her mother read Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of Nixon's fight for his presidency, The Final Days -- Pat Nixon was resting on the patio one afternoon in San Clemente, looking through the window into the house where her husband sat. "Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down," she told her daughter. "And I know I will never live to see the vindication. The thing that's so sad is that I don't think there is a man living who has more...
...slum when you can travel to exotic places like Casablanca (40 Brattle St.). While this doesn't have the savoir-faire of a Rick's or the earthy feel of a Blue Parrot it does have a nice patio where cool drinks feel very good on a hot summer night...