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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Friday, November 15, IMS Page Seven Hlow about 2 flawless diamonds for $2 million? by Rosemary Reeve Stall writer Letter carriers are carrying a lot more than letters these days. They're delivering everything from running shoes to business is antique silver because the booming. One of the biggest, slickest and certainly most expensive Christmas wishbook. Its 1 10 catalogs is Neiman-Marcpages of extravagance offer designer clothes, jewelry, furs, artworks and other luxuries. Neiman-Marchas the perfect gifts for a For that mere $2 couple. million, you can flaw less yellow diamonds with a combined weight buy two of 77 carats. If that's too costly, you might indulge in one of the smaller luxuries. Oral hygiene can be fun when you brush with toothpastes flavored with gin, scotch and bourbon. The $12 toothpastes arc not intoxicating, Neiman-Marcalso advertises a weekend trip to where England, guests will find themselves enmeshed in a staged murder and subsequent sleuthing. If you can't scrape up the $1,195 to pay for the trip, shop-by-m- ail us us hard-to-plea- his-and-- her sc us investigate Games magazine's Murder to Go. Murder is a $35 party game. Each guest is a sleuth and a suspect, and the game provides evidence, autopsy findings, police reports, character guides and mug shots to heighten suspense and authenticity. Games also sells brainteasers and puzzles. Another source for puzzles is the Bits & Pieces Great International Puzzle Collection, which boasts some of the biggest and most beautiful jigsaws around. Bits & Pieces sells puzzles made from copies of famous works of an. Prices range from $8.50 for a 500-piepuzzle of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" to S95 for a 12,000-piec- c copy of "The Temptation of St. Anthony" by Hieronymus Bosch. Those who prefer their art uncut might enjoy browsing "through Publishers Central Bureau catalogs. PCB sells a variety of books, records and videotapes. Some phenomenal bargains lurk amid the Princess Di picture books and the volumes of erotica. PCB's frequent novels to sales slash the prices of art books and best-sellia fraction of their original cost. You'll never find a current bestseller listed in a Dover Publications catalog. But you'll find books that were all the rage a century ago. Dover resurrects books and locates elusive manuscripts. Whether you're searching for Picasso's sketchbooks, rare Victorian novels or classic scientific treatises, Dover probably has them in inexpensive paperback editions. cc ng out-of-pr- int If you're looking for presents for literary friends but don't know what they've read, Cahill and Co. has a solution. Give them sweatshirts printed with, "I'd rather be writing my novel." The shirts cost SI 5.95. Cahill and Co. also sells "poetic licenses," calendars sprinkled with trivia about literature and greeting cards featuring quotations from great writers. . A magazine called Trifles sells greeting cards too, but these arc for people who don't want to commit themselves. The elegant white cards read, "Within limits, the undersigned wishes you a moderately pleasant holiday season." A box of 20 cards costs $12.50. Trifles has the ultimate gift for people who own everything but the heavens. For $35, you can name a real star after whomever you'd like, The name will be listed in the book, Your Place in the Cosmos. In addition, Trifles decks the earthbound with starry ornaments. It features fake and fabulous costume jewelry and pages of shimmering gowns. L.L Bean also sells clothes, but of a very different kind. The company sells clothing and equipment for people who love the outdoors and people who w ant to look as if they love the outdoors. In contrast with Bean's rustic, woodsy merchandise, the Sharper Image catalog specializes in slick executive toys. Sharper Image even sells rose --colored glasses. The rose tint of the $59 sunglasses comes from gold added to the glass w hile the lenses cool. Here are mailing addresses for the catalogs: Bits & Pieces, I Puzzle Place, Ridgley, Md., 21685; Cahill and Co., 145 Palisade St., Dobbs Ferry, K.Y., 10522; Dover Publications, 31 E. Second Street, Mineola, N.Y., 11501; Games Catalog Division, 800 24-ka- rat Morse Ave., Elk Grove Village, 111., 60007; LL. Bean, Freeport, Maine, 04033. Neiman-Marcu- s, P.O. Box 2968, Dallas, Texas, Publishers Central Bureau, Department 367, Champion Ave., Avenel, N.J., 0700I-99SSharper Image, 680 Davis St., San Francisco, Calif., 94111; Trifles, P.O. Box 819075, Dallas, Texas, 75381-907Wisconsin Cheeseman, P.O. Box No. 1, 75221-296- 1 7; 5; Madison, Wis., 53782. Do You Eat In The Union? 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