Store to Store, A Vertebral Line Of Evolution

By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: January 12, 1991

New York City has become a pretty grim place. But imagine its charms if you had real money in your pocket and time to shop.

Each person's fantasies are different. It turns out that our's tend toward the well-scrubbed bones of dead people, pythons and other writhing reptiles, colorful parrots at $5,000 each and speedboats that race along at 90 miles an hour. ...


A version of this article appeared in print on January 12, 1991, on page 127 of the New York edition.