Word: airbrush
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...potential ATM, which is why they'll do anything to avoid leaving with empty berths. A full ship is important to the atmosphere, and to employees' pockets, as tips are an important income boost. If you board, you might buy drinks, spa treatments, snorkeling excursions or even airbrush tattoos. And gamble. So the 103% occupancy rates RCL has maintained through the recession have been worth the deep discounting. "It's been a frustrating time," admits Goldstein, "but in this downturn it's critical to satisfy our customers and hope they'll come back and pay a higher price...
Every teacher can tell the story of a student who needed to fail in order to be reassured that the world wouldn't come to an end. Yet teachers now face a climate in which parents ghostwrite students' homework, airbrush their lab reports - then lobby like a K Street hired gun for their child to be assigned to certain classes. Principal Karen Faucher instituted a "no rescue" policy at Belinder Elementary in Prairie Village, Kans., when she noticed the front-office table covered each day with forgotten lunch boxes and notebooks, all brought in by parents. The tipping point...
...Mystic River” and “Gone Baby Gone,” for portraying Boston in all of its honest dreariness and stratification. But with big tax breaks and even bigger budgets on the line, it’s in Hollywood’s interest to airbrush away Boston’s flaws. If you consider though that right now, there is a Tom Cruise movie, two Ben Affleck movies, an Adam Sandler film, and a movie about Facebook starring Justin Timberlake all being filmed in Boston at the same time, it’s not hard...
...aloft in a typical pose of the real Chanel could be interpreted as an encouragement to light up. It's not like anyone in France ever needed much prodding to do that. But Métrobus decided to play it safe, and asked Coco's studio, Warner Bros., to airbrush the cigarette out or lose the ad. (See pictures of old tobacco...
...filmmaker in his iconic pose: riding a Solex, decked out in felt hat and overcoat, signature pipe clenched between his teeth. Forced by Métrobus - and, claims the company, France's advertising law - to do something about the illicit pipe, the Cinématheque decided not to airbrush it out, but instead drew a yellow propeller over the bowl to turn it into a child's pinwheel...