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...Germans were already suffering their first severe cases of frostbite. Soviet General (later Marshal) Georgi Zhukov reportedly noted that the enemy was perhaps too efficient: its soldiers had been supplied with the correct size boots. Russians, he said, knew enough to wear oversize footwear -- the better to stuff with wool and straw to protect toes against the cold. A popular Russian caricature of the time had the Fritzes -- as German soldiers were less than affectionately called -- wrapped in anything they could grab out of occupied civilian homes -- including women's shawls and feather boas. Hitler, expecting...
...This is a good job, although acrylic is not very French--the best material is pure wool," said Corinne Vitte, a French national working in Luxembourg...
...surprise success of Donna Karan's DKNY that inspired the industry. Selling such staples as $90 cotton poplin blouses and $365 navy wool blazers, DKNY last year hit $100 million in sales and should reach $140 million this year. Launched less than three years ago, the company is proving to be the salvation of Seventh Avenue. Clothing designers, like businessmen everywhere, tend to fall all over a winning formula, and store racks are groaning with DKNY wannabes. "I call our rivals the Pac-Men," says DKNY's president, Denise Seegal. "They're all coming after us." This fall...
...seas. My large popcorn and medium Coke coat the floors of movie theaters across the country. I am a relentless consumer. I have created this world of plastic products and disposable containers. I shower under water warmed by fossil fuels and I keep my hands warm with the wool of a sheep and the smooth skin of a once-lovely deer. I write for a newspaper that reels of 4000 copies a day. My trash can bulges with old light bulbs and paper cups, cardboard boxes, potato chip bags and out-of-date magazines...
...Libya, Horwitz finds a designer dictator dressed in a cape, tartan sweater and red wool hat. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is also given to mismatched profundities, like "Woman is a female and man is a male" and "Democracy means popular rule, not popular expression...