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I I 2 Part Monday. November 1 1, 1985 Cos Angeles (Times Dear Abby THE FAMILY CIRCUS by Bil Keane ATRIUM COURT: Opening Spotlights 28 Stores Co- wm yfTr TJ has the same first name as OJ. Simpson 'cept for one letter." TONY BULLARD Designer Marquese Emilio Pucci attends Fashion Island gala. Continued from Page 1 granite. One local at the gala said she wasn't so sure marble was such a good idea.

"All that sound bouncing off all that marble makes it difficult to hear sometimes," she said. "But I love the place. I love the sense of human vitality in Atrium Court, even though it might be expensive as hell. It's like a downtowa You have that same sense of human energy, activity, the human pulse." The competition gave due credit. "It really is beautiful," said Maura Eggan, marketing director of South Coast Plaza, the county's most profitable mall, located in neighboring Costa Mesa.

"Very elegant." Bip and notwithstandingthey feature casual sportswear from France and Japan respectivelythe so-called Fashion Island "Renaissance" represents something of an Italian invasion: One quarter of the stores among them Fiorucci, DiVarese, Selvag-gio, Ellesse and Paul Mayer Serena d'ltalia feature Italian fashions. Guests at the dinner offered ideas about the influx of Italian boutiques to Southern California. "There's a lot of Middle Eastern money going through Italy these days," ventured one Fashion Island employee in hushed tones. But Umberto Angeloni, president of Brioni worldwide, whose mens-wear is featured at Cuzzens, had another explanation. "The Italians have always been good designers and good tailors," said the 33-year-old Angeloni, "but perhaps less well-organized, and perhaps less able to promote things than the French.

Around-the-Clock Work "Italian wines are just as good as French wines, for example, if not better. But we've never been able to promote them the right way. Now, the new generation is studying business along with design in college. We are becoming good managers. We come to fashion with an approach to grow." The Irvine Co.

has increased its renovation budget from what was originally $20 million to $116 millionwith good reason: Sales at the mall have already increased by a whopping one-third since the Irvine Ranch Farmers Market, which has become something of a tourist attraction and one of Southern California's hottest lunch spots, opened six months ago. Nielsen admitted he was surprised by the impact of the market She Married a Child in a Man's Body By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN DEAR ABBY: After four years of marriage, I found out that my husband can neither read nor write; he can only sign his name. He admitted this after he lost his job and I had to help him fill out some job applications. During our courting days, his inability to read or write never came up. I was a widow with two children.

He was divorced. He makes a very good appearance, but has always had trouble holding down a job. Now I know why. He is very good at fooling people. He would ask me to read everything from menus to instructions to him saying his eyes were "tired." His mother and members of his family have known all along that he was illiterate, but they kept it from me.

He has many good qualities, but I am angry because I didn't get a husband, I got a child in a man's body! Am I wrong to be mad at his family for covering up for him? FOUND OUT TOO LATE DEAR FOUND OUT: Don't place all the blame on your husband's family-, he should have told you himself. Millions of American adults are functionally illiterateunable to read a help-wanted ad or directions on a bottle of aspirin, and cannot address an envelope. Somehow they manage to bluff their way through, as your husband did. However, if he really wants to learn, there are adult basic education classes available through your local public schools. And many public libraries provide one-on-one tutoring for adults.

To find out the location of free programs near you, call or write: The National Coalition for Literacy, P.O. Box 81826, Lincoln, Neb, 68501. Send a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope. Its toll-free number is 1-800-228-8813. The people there can also tell you how to become a volunteer tutor.

"The only degree you need is the degree of caring." DEAR ABBY: After only three months of marriage, my wife left me for another man. She refuses to get counseling to save our marriage. It looks hopeless, so I may as well accept her decision. My question is, What should be done about our wedding presents? Should we divide them between us according to who gave them to us all the gifts that came from her friends and relatives should go to her, and those that come from my friends and family should be mine? Or should we return them all to the senders? What about the gifts that have been used? Thank-you cards have already been sent out for all of them. If you print this, you may use my name.

I have nothing to hide. Otherwise, sign me STILL IN LOVE IN MISSOURI DEAR STILL: The unused wedding gifts should be returned. Gifts that have been used should be divided those from her family and friends are hers. Those from your friends and family belong to you. I'm sorry you're hurting.

I wish you happiness again and soon. DEAR ABBY: I am an introvert. I cherish my privacy and try to protect it whenever possible. My sister-in-law is coming to town for 10 days, and she's written to tell me not ask me, but to tell me she is going to sleep on my couch! Abby, the couch is in the middle of the living room, and if she sleeps there she will disrupt my privacy. She's a late sleeper, and I have to get up at 6:30 a.m.

to bathe, breakfast and dress for work in the morning. This sister-in-law lives 2,000 miles away and I barely know her. I would not want my best friend sleeping in the middle of my living room for 10 days or even overnight! The cost of a motel is no problem. Her brother (my husband) thinks this is OK. Am I wrong to resent it? NO NAME, NO CITY DEAR NO NAME: Of course you're not wrong to resent it.

If you wrote to get my approval to be resentful, you have it. Get in touch with her as soon as possible and don't ask her tell her that you're making motel reservations for her. Do you hate to write letters because you don't know what to say? Thank-you notes, sympathy letters, congratulations, how to decline and accept invitations and how to write an interesting letter are included in Abbrs booklet, "How to Write Letters for All Occasions." Send your name and address clearly printed with a check or money order for $2.50 and a long, stamped (39 cents) self -addressed envelope to: Dear Abby, Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038.

on the mall. "Nobody anticipated there would be so much demand for the prepared food services," he said. "People really seem to enjoy the atmosphere, and we've had to find ways to accommodate them. It's very much affected the entire center in terms of traffic coming into the center and people staying longer. "You always project what will happen.

But nobody expected it to happen so quickly." Among the food concessions that opened on the market level in May were Italian bakery II Fornaio and Max Gourmandise, which features desserts from Max au Triangle; deli items arrive daily from L'Ermitage restaurant. The new Alan Austin, Ylang-Ylang, Theodore and Theodore Man boutiques on the upper levels strengthen the Beverly Hills connection. Twenty more shops are scheduled to open in the Atrium by spring, and the city of Newport Beach has approved the next phase of the "Renaissance," to get under way in February, 60,000 square feet of shops near Neiman-Marcus. "Atrium Court is just the beginning," promised David Mudgett, president of the Irvine Retail Properties Co. Designs from the spring line of Marquese Emilio Pucci, who attended the dinner, were shown in vignette along with those of Krizia and Brioni menswear.

(Pucci's fashions will be carried at Antonio Buttaro, which could not open in time for the gala.) Pucci described his spring line as "always funny things, people like mermaids, scuba diving and water-skiing." Shown, however, were nothing of the sort, but rather airy, colorful, floral-patterned designs gracefully ballooning or flaring at the bottoms. Fashion Philosophy Expressed Pucci shared his fashion philosophy and a forecast during dinner. "People are looking for something that will atone for all the dreariness, all the international unrest and so on that exists today," he said. "They want to be lifted out of that. Fashion is one of the answers Italian fashion especially, because we smile more at life.

"The move today is away from clothes made without knowledge of the human figure, that hang on you as if you were a hanger the hobo look, I call it. Human beings should not look like a hippopotamus rolling in mud. There has been a feeling that people should look ridiculous, wear oversized clothes, multicolored, often badly made. "Look at the architecture around us here. It is not like a slum.

Those were clothes for a slum a 'slum-mish' fashion. This trend is coming to an end now. Now I think you will see clothes more like the architecture in Fashion Island." Jihan Sadat to Speak on the 'Changing Role of Women' Jihan Sadat, widow of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, will be honored by American Women for International Understanding at the organization's seventh annual award luncheon at noon Friday at the Beverly Wilshire. She will speak on "The Changing Role of Women: An International Overview." Founded in 1968 to create an international community of women the organization emphasizes international exchanges through study, travel and symposiums and encourages individual outreach through nonpolitical, non-governmental voluntary action. Tickets for the luncheon cost $50 and are tax deductible.

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