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Middle-class shoppers tend to prefer the discounted versions of Ann Taylor, Benetton, and Calvin Klein, where you at least have the chance to buy a piece of clothing for $15. The mall also has normal, no-brand stores for those who either don't care about or can't afford labels...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: An Ode to the Puritan Ethic | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...great advocate of Microsoft and Intel," Kushner says. "I love every product introduction." Kushner's only problem: his idea may be too good. PC leviathans Compaq and Packard Bell are rushing new $1,000 PCs to market. But Kushner may have an edge, at least among buyers who'd prefer a used Porsche to a new Nova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECH WATCH: Feb. 24, 1997 | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...McFarlane, which makes the Kiss dolls. "This is the first celebrity doll we've made, but there has been a lot of interest." Each Kiss member will retail for about $7.99. Hasbro's General Eisenhower, as befits his station, will be a little pricier, at $49.99. And if you prefer your dolls-in-uniform to come equipped with a riding crop, Hasbro also makes a General Patton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 24, 1997 | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...movie executive would prefer fathering films to merely adopting them. But while you can make a lot of money producing pictures, you can also lose a lot. Miramax did indeed tank with some of its early in-house productions, like The Lemon Sisters with Diane Keaton and The Long Walk Home with Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg. It has been more successful with genre films birthed by Bob Weinstein's Dimension Films. Dimension plans sequels to Scream, From Dusk Till Dawn and Total Recall, originally made by another studio. Miramax, which traditionally had more pickups than homegrown product, is making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: INDEPENDENTS' DAY | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...allegation of murdering two Christian children, for example, strikes me as analogous to the lynching of blacks in the South as a result of far less serious allegations (such as merely looking at white females or operating a successful business). That is to say nothing (as most Americans would prefer) of 244 years of enslavement, a legalized system of apartheid, and the disease of systematically entrenched racism that thrives to this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blacks and Jews Must Act Together to Make Change | 2/18/1997 | See Source »

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