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...override the veto, the U.S. textile industry still hopes for an eventual success. Developing countries deplore the bill. "How can the American government justify asking Brazil or other countries to open their economies when the U.S. is closing its own?" asks Adimar Schievelbein, a consultant to the Brazilian shoe industry...
...Senator sees the G.O.P.: "The Grey Poupon crowd, the Gucci-poochie- coochie shoe-wearing, Mercedes-driving, polo-playing, Jacuzzi-soaking, Perrier-drinking, Aspen-skiing, ritzy-rich, high-society Republicans who eat broccoli." Leaving out George Bush...
...female doctor and her lover, a would-be inventor of nouvelle kosher cuisine, cheerily introduce themselves as "the lesbians from next door." The matron's husband, and surrogate father to her son, is the ex-husband's ex-psychiatrist. The shrink and the boy do a vaudeville-inspired soft-shoe number called Everyone Hates His Parents. The mother probably speaks for a whole generation or two when she describes her occupation in life as "holding to the ground as the ground keeps shifting...
Consumers fed up with $100-plus price tags for top-drawer Nike Air Jordans or Reebok Pumps are turning back to $25 plain canvas Keds, the reliable old workhorse of the athletic-shoe industry. Keds sales rose from $150 million in 1988 to $200 million in 1989, and are expected to top $230 million this year, at a time when most companies' sales are slowing...
...aging coaches, the decor runs to implausible orange and tepid yellows, the odor is museum quality. A $274 sleeping compartment on Amtrak's Cardinal, from Chicago to New York, manages ingeniously -- and torturously -- to cram sink, toilet, passenger seat, closet, water cooler, trash can, storage compartment and shoe locker into a space about...