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...name Levi has long been to jeans what Xerox is to copiers and Scotch to tape. After all, Levi Strauss invented denim jeans, and the San Francisco business he founded in 1853 created an industry. Even during the designer-jean < craze, no-nonsense Levi held on to its spot as the top jeans manufacturer. The company now controls about 24% of a $6 billion annual market...
Music of Wagner, Brahms, Grieg, R. Strauss and Sibelius...
...music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn; a fourth, of 20th century works, will be released in September.) The assortment of music on this three-record set, released last month, is very odd for a Romantic piano music collection: three sonatinas by Jean Sibelius, an obscure sonata by Richard Strauss, two transcriptions by Gould of highlights from Wagner operas, and more conventional repertoire by Brahms and Grieg...
...month before he died (1982), does not mean that they're not fascinating, and sometimes even beautiful. It does mean, however, that this set is worth buying only if you either love Gould's playing, or want to listen to little-known piano music of Sibelius and Strauss...
Exporters of pop pander to foreign stereotypes of Americans. "The Japanese have very firm ideas about what they think we should be," says Jim Chriss, marketing vice-president of Levi Strauss International. Real Americans, in other words, are cowboys and sexpots and raucous young hunks--Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift. It seems that Europeans and Japanese are especially fond of the American icons that provided their first pop jolt 20 or 30 or 40 years ago--pop that now has patina. The French intelligentsia still swoons for American movies of the '40s and '50s. Levi's is using images...