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IT'S NOT often that a humble beauty product finds a place in New York's Museum of Modern Art, but Tony and Tina's Millennium Key nail varnish is proof that vanity can be an art form. A devilishly simple idea, it's a nail polish that fits snugly between your fingers, rendering the knees-together-with-teetering- pot position unnecessary. It comes in a range of five spacey colours, from glittery blue to shiny peach, but the real joy is the 21st-century, rocket-like design. Ingenious.
pounds 11.95 at Liberty, Regent St, London W1, www.liberty-of-london.com (tel: 0171 734 1234).
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THE DEL BOY image of the chunky gold chain has rapidly made way for this summer's Seventies-style name necklaces. They're tacky, tasteless and totally hip. Just pop into your nearest Argos to order your personalised 9-carat gold necklace. Really! You couldn't make it up.
pounds 18.99 to order, from Argos.
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REMEMBER WALKIE-talkies? If you don't, Motorola thinks it's time you did. Its new TalkAbout radio is a cred alternative to a mobile phone without the painful bills. Battery-operated, it delivers good reception up to two miles. The lightweight design is user-friendly and the batteries provide up to three hours' chat-time. It's good to talk - especially when it's free.
Price, pounds 99, (tel: 0500 555 555).
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THE LARGEST annual balloon fiesta in Europe takes place this week in Bristol, the UK capital of hot-air ballooning. The event will include a mass ascent of over 150 globes of different shapes and sizes, including a "comedy" Tesco shopping trolley and an RAC breakdown van. There's also a Night Glow, when 30 round balloons rise up like giant light bulbs, followed by the obligatory fireworks. If that's not quite daredevil enough for the kids, there's live music, parachute drops and motorcycle display teams, too.
The SWEB International Balloon Fiesta, 5-8 August, Ashton Court, Bristol. Admission free. www.bristolfiesta.co.uk
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FROM TRAVELLERS to tepees, free- loving to flares, Channel 4's documentary on the hippies of the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival throws the gauntlet down to today's festival. The documentary follows five people who went to the original festival - and their children - to find out the impact Sixties idealism has had on our lives. It then sends them off to modern-day Glastonbury. An eye-opener for those who want to know what their mum and dad really got up to in the "Summer of Love" and the perfect excuse for kids to ignore their parents when they claim "It didn't happen in my day". Liars.
`The Summer of Love: My Generation', 9pm, 8 August, Channel 4.
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