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...faded pairs of Levi's no-frills 501 jeans. Springsteen does not make product endorsements and the pants do not carry his name, but true- blue fans would never mistake the brand of britches he wears on the cover of his current album, Born in the U.S.A. Says Levi Strauss Spokesman Dean Christon: "Springsteen's a great artist, and he certainly has great taste in jeans." The San Francisco company expects sales of its made-in-the-U.S.A. 501 model to jump 20% this year compared with...
...popularity of the 501 comes as a welcome boost for Levi Strauss (1984 revenues: $2.5 billion), which suffered through the designer-jean craze and then a general slump in denim sales. Partly with help from Springsteen, the 501 has been riding a fashion U-turn back to the all-American look. Says Steve Yacker, manager of a Gap clothing store in Manhattan: "Designer jeans are out. The 501 has become a fashion statement...
Like Samuel Butler's Erewhon, Thomas Berger's principality of Saint Sebastian can be found on no map, but its significance will be clear to any reader with a sufficiently jaundiced eye. Tucked away in Middle Europe, somewhere between Johann Strauss's Vienna and Kafka's Prague, the country subsists on a precarious economy of universal credit. Politics and journalism are against the law; pederasty is condoned, but rudeness is considered a crime against the state. The government bureaucracy includes the absurdly named Ministry of Clams, a sort of dead-letter office for all insoluble problems, whose minister believes that...
...visit to a German military cemetery in Bitburg raised a storm of criticism at home and abroad. No breakthrough on arms control is in sight, and a summit meeting with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev seems to be drifting into limbo. Tax reform, says former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss, "is the best thing Ronald Reagan has going...
...service just over one year ago. Says Food and Beverage Director Thomas Monetti: "People like the relaxing harp music and the elegance of the brass tea trolleys. You often see papers and memos out on the tables." "It's a very graceful way to do business," says John Strauss, manager of San Francisco's elegant Four Seasons Clift Hotel. "Some of them add a glass of wine to the service. It's a kind of 'California...