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...first such shop, opened in 1968, was for Michel and Chantal Faure of St.-Tropez, then barely known even in France. Bloomingdale's sold hundreds of maxicoats under their MicMac label. The Faures now have 500 other clients, among them some of Bloomingdale's biggest competitors: Saks, Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor...
...writing the text that accompanies these Augean sweepings of the human psyche? Legman tells us that he began his harvest as a teen-ager in Scranton, Pa., where he was born in 1918. "I got myself in the habit," he recalls, "to top my own father, a notable teller of tales." The psychoanalytically inclined may draw their own conclusions. But it is fairly clear that Legman enjoys a magnificent case of outraged moralism and is trying to housebreak his readers by rubbing their noses in libidinous filth...
EVERYONE ELSE on the scene wants to be a hero, too; the dizzy head teller refuses her chance to be released from the bank, waves exhilaratedly at the TV cameras and marches back inside, and the police chief, in John Waynesque extravagance, summons several hundred of his men when ten would have done just as well. These greedy gambits for recognition are cutely or comically presented and then quickly filed away. Any social comment they could have made is overshadowed by bell-ringer lines like Sonny's bleated "We're Vietnam veterans, so killing means nothing to us, ya understand...
Most big retailers think so. "It really is the total look," maintains Denise Silchner, head of Bonwit Teller's juniors department in Beverly Hills. "You don't have to coordinate tops with pants. If a woman buys one and a few accessories like a belt and a scarf, she looks like she's off the cover of Vogue." Or Popular Mechanics...
...face it, you pay $5000 a year so that you and not somebody with a different shaped hand can have Harvard's food and library books. Charging totalitarianism when your palm is scanned in the Harvard dining halls is no more reasonable than complaining when a bank teller checks your signature before handing over the money...