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- <text id=90TT3467>
- <title>
- Dec. 24, 1990: Wretched Excess Citation
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
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- <p> WRETCHED EXCESS CITATION: L.A. GEAR
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- <p> The troubled leisure-wear company has unveiled a series of
- holiday commercials that compare the supposedly meager
- gift-giving traditions of other cultures with the loaded-down
- Christmas excess in the U.S. The spots' self-satisfied tag
- line: "Aren't you glad you live in America?"
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- </body>
- </article>
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