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...built an impressive sales record. Revenues for the first six months of 1988 were $1.2 billion, a 29% increase over the same period last year. Luggage sales rose 58%, wines and spirits 53%. Moreover, the company has ambitious expansion plans. Vuitton expects to introduce new pens, watches and silk scarves in the fall, and its Givenchy- perfume subsidiary is readying a line of health-care and makeup products. Moet intends to market moderately priced sparkling wines in Spain and Australia. As such projects unfold, Moet Vuitton's enormous growth potential may provide Chevalier and Racamier just enough incentive to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Champagne and Luggage Mix? | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...really relevant to the American voter that Bob Dole's father never hugged? Or that Jesse Jackson has a half-brother who is mixed up with drug dealers, murderers and terrorists? Or that the destruction of Barbara Bush's entire wardrobe of silk lingerie while her husband was in the navy "really got to her"? Or that Al Gore's candidacy "raised the possibility of a man going through a mid-life crisis while in the White House...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: The Problems of Presidential Pop Psychology | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

Democratic Conventions usually mean funny hats and bitter spats. Typically, they are ornery, out-of-control encounter sessions populated by overweight, cigar-puffing pols and eccentrically dressed activists shouting indecipherable slogans. But this affair was so organized it was downright Republican. Pearls and silk dresses were as much in evidence as bizarre headgear. No cigar haze wafted to the ceiling: the party made this its first no-smoking convention. . The aisles were crowded, but the speaker did not pound his gavel and yell for the marshals to clear them. The clusters around the states' computer terminals resembled Wall Street trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats True-Life Tales from the Omni | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

Even economic observers agreed that the boom in upscale business--for items like Southampton beach estates, Porsches, and $1000 silk business suits--would soon reverse itself. People would invest more cautiously, and live more modest lives. Values would change. Fewer would be able to afford extravagance for its own sake...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Secret of Our Success | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

That someone is Rico, a drug lord from the jungles of Colombia. Rico speaks in a heavy accent and lusts for revenge and power. He dresses in silk suits and has a taste--or a smell--for cocaine...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Bad Guys, Good Guys | 6/7/1988 | See Source »

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