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...truth universally acknowledged that Nordstrom stores have wrapped up the title for top-of-the-line customer service. They will take back returns with a smile, hail you a cab and send out a salesclerk and tailor with armloads of clothes if you're too busy to go shopping. If it's footwear you're after, Nordstrom's vast shoe sections boast up to 150,000 pairs from sizes 4 to 21. "I really like Nordstrom," says Kelly Chandler, 28, a marketing specialist at a Seattle radio station who has shopped at the fashion retailer's flagship store since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOSING ITS LUSTER | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

This matter-of-factness was inevitable: the sheer passage of time dilutes horror. The earliest AIDS deaths were accompanied by roaring panic. My friend Eric, a stage manager and haberdashery salesclerk, died in '86. His extreme weight loss and hollow-cheeked pallor gave him a look of near theatrical decay, and his paranoia and memory loss were not then recognized as symptoms of dementia. He was surprisingly granted a luxurious room in a Manhattan hospital, with a uniformed guard at the door; we later discovered that the staff was being extra cautious because another AIDS patient had jumped from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOW IT'S AIDS INC. | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...conversation grinds to a brief, awkward halt, then takes a turn into the wilderness-into the thicket of this young couple's most intimate concerns and darkest fears. Patti tells Laura, a 29-year-old department store salesclerk, that in her opinion it is O.K. to take birth-control pills on the advice of her doctor to help with pms. Then John, coordinator of family ministry at St. Augustine, says, "Is either one of you jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOULD THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

...pouring tea for quake victims. She looked older than in the photo, but when Tachio showed her the picture, she recognized herself by the striped pajama trousers and black-and-white jacket she had been wearing when the photo was taken. The woman, Emiko Deguchi, 47, a department-store salesclerk, agreed to tell Tachio her story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Feb. 6, 1995 | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a Saks Fifth Avenue salesclerk reports selling a pair of Lauren red plaids to a 64-year-old grandmother who plans to wear them, thighs flashing, with a mini-skirt. That's more like it. Still, fads being what they are, Grandmother might well be advised to save her panty hose, God knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Getting a Leg Up | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

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