Word: adapts
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WHEN THOMAS BURBERRY, purveyor of outdoor gear for the sports inclined, was asked by the British War Office in 1914 to adapt his service uniforms for officers to military needs, he could not have imagined that his trench coat?named for its use in the trenches of World War I?would be adopted by fashion icons like Catherine Deneuve and Chloë Sevigny. Yet Burberry, who had started off as an apprentice to a country draper in Basingstoke, England, was used to outfitting the famous. He had, after all, supplied the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen with his gabardine coats when...
...constantly invented to make consumers more comfortable with new goods such as clothing or cosmetic procedures. Harvard’s orgasm workshop works within the same economy. Those among us who would find an ally in the market should, however, remember that its friendship is fickle: commercial activity will adapt to conveying whatever political and cultural messages sell the product...
Despite the half-hearted attempt to adapt the setting and costumes from nineteenth-century Russia to what appears to be the Hamptons, this production of the play still remains strikingly modern in its conflicts and emotions...
...Shoe Diaries before landing a job on NYPD Blue under celebrated writer guru David Milch. But struggling for years imbued him with an uncommon sense of purpose. After winning an Oscar for Traffic in 2001, Gaghan turned down seven-figure offers to write the fourth Indiana Jones movie and adapt The Da Vinci Code. Instead, inspired by an anecdote about an oil lobbyist in See No Evil, a memoir by former CIA officer Robert Baer, Gaghan decided to make a complex, journalistic movie about the politics of crude. "It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work...
...this internal uproar spark the downfall of the Club? Did Martha, Abby, and Mary threaten to reveal The Club’s secrets? Or perhaps The Club’s death was inevitable—a species that could not survive due to its failure to adapt? The answer remains a mystery...