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...summer. It is Native American jewelry -- anything from a $15 pair of earrings to a '40s concha belt that might go for $40,000. Like many fads, Indian jewelry was not born yesterday. In the late '60s and early '70s, the carved stones and silver appealed to young rebels; Woodstock was full of Indian finery. Later, when artists and Hollywood celebrities like Steven Spielberg took up Santa Fe and Southwestern decor in a big way, jewelry, along with rugs and pottery, became collectible...
...international reputation and association with Western musicians like Yehudi Menuhin and former Beatle George Harrison (with whom Shankar appeared at the Woodstock festival in 1969) have contributed to increasing the popularity of Indian music in the West...
...PROFESSION WHOSE IDEA OF EXCITEMENT IS sharpening a bundle of No. 2 pencils, last Wednesday's meeting of the Financial Accounting Standards Board was the equivalent of Woodstock. At a rare standing-room-only gathering captured by even rarer camera crews, the FASB decided by a 6-to-1 vote to force companies to deduct from their earnings the value of stock options awarded to managers. Stock incentives, which account for as much as 90% of corporate executive income, have come under attack by critics of excessive pay. The rule change, which could reduce declared profits as much...
...Woodstock on the Mall, actor Edward James Olmos quoted Lincoln: "We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Clinton, a good student with a good memory, mouthed the words as Olmos spoke them. Clinton must have realized that, in a different sense and a different era, America faces the task of disenthralling itself, of shaking off the Hollywood stardust and facing facts...
...says Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land, "Clinton's generation has already had its chance to make its tastes the country's tastes." Has it ever. Baby boomers -- especially the older ones like Clinton who were born in the 1940s -- have been pop-cultural imperialists since before Woodstock; the rest of America, like it or not, has had to endure their collective self-absorption as they metamorphosed from hippies to yuppies to competitive parenting. What is possibly left for them to gain from a Clinton presidency, other than perhaps good government? Hard to picture Clinton's peers celebrating their...