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...vehicles do different things for each of the sexes. While men revel in their swaggering, go-anywhere prowess, women like the high cabins that enable them to look out over traffic and feel secure. "Before, when I drove around town, I always had my hand on the horn because I was worried about my visibility to other drivers," says Jill Headstream, 41, a legal assistant in Austin, Texas, who traded in her Ford Probe for an Explorer in April. "I'm noticed now." Besides, says Headstream, Jeeps and their cousins have helped bolster the position of women in the road...
...purveyors of popular culture have turned the 1970s into the decade of the moment. Fashion has reprised platform shoes, Pumas and bell-bottoms. Movies, TV shows and magazines marketed to the children of those taste-free years revel in their endless allusions to the Bradys and the Partridges...
...rich, handsome man he is a big target, though, and the arrival of a tell-all expose like Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein, by Steven Gaines and Sharon Churcher (Birch Lane Press; $22.50), was almost inevitable. The authors do not fawn -- they revel in describing the people Klein copied, the deals he made, the collaborators he turned against. Above all, they dwell on his heavy drug use and bisexuality...
...reform tax policy is not to simply build level upon revel of complex hierarchy into the code. Instead, the format must be simplified. Americans have a right to an efficient tax system that does not waste their time and hard-earned dollars...
...good read" in the best sense of that overused phrase. It sustains the reader's interest, it has pleasantly rich descriptions of the blueness of seas and skies, and the vignettes of life in the village of Santiago are absorbing. Best of all, it is entirely possible to revel in the dainty perfection of the symbolism contained in Benitez's flowers, stars, soil and smoke without considering the triteness...