Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star status during the 1970s. It started after he began displaying his engaging smile in advertisements in 1974, when Saks Fifth Avenue asked him to appear in a print ad for the store's Polo boutique. Lauren, 5 ft. 5 or so, projected considerable well-tanned sex appeal. In the same year he designed the male wardrobe for the opulent remake of The Great Gatsby, which starred Robert Redford. In 1977 Lauren's creations attracted a further celebrity following when Diane Keaton adopted them in a layered, tomboyish look for Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Lauren's label began...
...appeal is similarly diverse. New Age is the perfect music for washing one's BMW, which accounts for its stereotyping as yuppie Muzak. But, notes Hugh Ashcraft, owner of a record store in Charlotte, N.C., "we have a wide range of people buying this stuff. There's a good number of old hippies, and mothers and grandmothers." Jenny McEwen, a Charlotte nurse, listens to New Age music on Sunday nights because "it dissipates the dread of Monday mornings. I find myself actually looking forward to the week...
...clampdown came just three weeks after Junejo returned from a trip to the U.S., where he proclaimed Pakistan's return to democracy and emphasized that Bhutto's appeal was fading fast. In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the U.S. hoped for the quick restoration of "peaceful conditions...
Dismissing the appeal, Bhutto tried to board a Lahore-bound plane in Karachi but was stopped by court order. Instead, the next morning a van paraded her slowly toward the city's poorest quarter, accompanied by a throng of supporters chanting "Long live Bhutto." Within half an hour, police riot squads attacked without warning, firing tear gas shells. Later that day Bhutto was arrested...
Without gainsaying the emotional appeal of LPs, it is clear that CDs are here to stay. Good-quality players are available for $350 to $500, and the price of the discs has fallen from an average $20 to around $14. High-end enthusiasts are likely to be the last holdouts in a war that has already been lost. "CDs may not be perfect," says Feldman. "But they are the best thing to come along since Edison invented the phonograph...