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...colors from blue to peach. They are cut to accentuate the lines of the body, but they eschew the pointy lapels and extra pockets of more extreme European designs. As a result, the suits do not look out of place at an executive board meeting. Made of top-quality wool, silk, linen and cotton from Italy, Boss suits cost from $200 to $300 in Europe and $400 to $500 in the U.S. They typically run about $100 less than suits made by such leading European designers as Armani and Valentino...
...catalog of the future," as Sears now calls it, contains twelve pages of Tiegs in color and, in one 24-page section, appeals to the upwardly mobile young woman of the '80s with sexy models sporting slightly punk hairdos and clad in leather skirts, silk dresses and wool blazers. "Come share the excitement," teases the copy. "Looks that say you're going places." For the homey image with a difference, the catalog also carries twelve full-page photographs that are wry takeoffs of Norman Rockwell's paintings of American family scenes...
...late-19th century life, at prices that today are pure nostalgia. Shoppers could find a 200-lb. barrel of corned beef for $9, a 35-lb. wooden pail of gumdrops at $1.65 and a dozen 5-lb. pails of strawberry jelly for $6. Clothing included men's wool worsted suits for $6.50 and ladies' "walking and bicycle suits" for $6.75, topped off by a "very stylish" $2.95 hat. There were blacksmith's tools, farm implements and a vehicle section featuring phaetons, surreys, carriages and a "top-grade" buggy...
...long do you think the Federal Government and the banks can pull the wool over our eyes? The banks that lent money to Latin American countries knew there was a good chance those countries would default [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, July 2]. They also knew that the U.S. Government would help them out with our tax dollars. Citizens should tell our Government to stop bailing out the banks. Jan Theiss Guffey San Jose, Calif...
...standard is certainly one valid explanation for the level of public doubt which female victims of sex-related crimes must often endure. But there is another explanation which extends beyond feminism--to victims of both genders and of all ages--and involves a more general human tendency to pull wool over one's eyes. Most people simply do not want to face the disturbing fact that a women might be risking her well-being simply by walking into a bar: that some men and women sexually assualt their own children: that some septuagenarians sodomize toddlers: that, in short, there...