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After several years of modest sales, limited almost exclusively to the Western mountain states, the sports-sandal fad has spread to both coasts. The most popular line is known as Teva, made by Deckers Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif.; they come in 30 different styles and retail for anywhere from $35 to $80. Peter Link, Deckers' vice president for marketing and sales, predicts that revenues from the sandal will double this year to $12 million and double again next year. Says Link: "We want to be the airy alternative to athletic shoes." Clearly, a goal worth striding...
...Moravian village, and the composer knew its inhabitants with detachment and compassion. He creates no heroes, but a world of people working, flirting, taking naps, worrying about saving face or avoiding the draft. The plot, however, concerns deadly primal emotions: love, jealousy and ambition. Jenufa is pregnant by števa, a wastrel who chases every girl in town. Jenufa still hopes to catch him, but her world is invisibly rimmed by two figures far more powerful than she and her faithless swain. One is a poor man named Laca, who loves her with a ferocity that drives him to ruin...