Word: appeals
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Harvard students know better than most that the Harvard name carries a lot of weight. But despite its appeal to their vanity, students come to find out after a few semesters, that a big name does not necessarily guarantee satisfaction...
Potomac Mills is always packed with shoppers pouring out of tour busses. The mall's appeal lies mainly in its ability to service value-seekers of all socioeconomic classes. For the pennypinching rich, the mall has Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys New York, and Escada outlet stores...
...audience was filled with families and school groups, whose applause testified to his multi-generational appeal...
...lunch with New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato. The Republican from Long Island was down in the polls back home, under fire for his partisan assaults on President Clinton's ethics, desperate for an issue that would refurbish his image. Bronfman brought him a heaven-sent gift certain to appeal to his large bloc of Jewish voters. When Bronfman told him about the Swiss banks' stalling, D'Amato offered public hearings by his Senate banking committee. With the in-your-face D'Amato aboard, the war was about to begin in earnest...
...This is a great moment for independent films," he says. "It shows that risk has its rewards." The risks are mostly of finance, not of film form. The big winners among little movies didn't dabble in delirious innovation (the hallucinogenic Trainspotting got only a screenplay nod). The primary appeal of their stories is not to the young mass audience, which prefers spectacular fantasy and broad comedy, but to older viewers, more sophisticated and more sentimental, liberal in their politics and conservative in their desire for humanist affirmation--folks very like the typical Oscar voter. This audience wants, as Fine...