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...jokes and slogans but will embrace a range that celebrates what he calls the "quintessential Australian beach babe," to be embodied by Sydney model Cheyenne Tozzi. Mambo will stay in department stores but also return to surf chains. If all goes well, says Kingsmill, its nine outlets in Australia could become 20 within three years. He also plans to expand into the U.S., where classic Mambo T shirts have been traded on ebay...
...move the brand's appeal from nostalgic baby-boomers to their children. "Brands have to evolve," says copywriter Golding. "The new guys are charismatic and well-connected. If anyone's going to pull this off, they are." While the economists deliver dark prophecies, the brand that gave Australia its own beer-and-pie-giving Jesus is poised to make a Second Coming...
...matter. When the wise men looked at their world in 1945, it was one of ruins. Germany and Japan had been destroyed. Britain was tired out; France shamed; Russia bled white. In China war would continue for another four years. Of the industrial democracies, only the U.S., Canada and Australia had been spared misery in their homeland. The U.S. economy accounted for nearly a half of total world output in 1945, a proportion that it has never approached since. Crucially, the U.S. defined what it was to be modern. The U.S. was big shouldered and handsome, the U.S. wore nylons...
...said, "means something different than it did in the years after World War II, when ... the United States was the only democratic superpower. Today we are not alone. There is the powerful collective voice of the European Union, and there are the great [democracies] of India and Japan, Australia and Brazil. There are also the increasingly powerful nations of China and Russia. In such a world, where power of all kinds is more widely and evenly distributed, the United States cannot lead by virtue of its power alone ... We need to listen to the views and respect the collective will...
Black Watch, a galvanizing, free-form stage piece from the National Theatre of Scotland (it debuted in 2006 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has toured Britain, Australia and three U.S. cities), is the highlight of a remarkable recent surge of plays about the Iraq war. Hollywood, traditionally the go-to vehicle for telling war stories, had its own flurry of interest but after a few star-studded box-office underperformers (In the Valley of Elah, Redacted and, most recently, Body of Lies) has largely retreated to its foxhole. Theater has stepped into the breach, using an impressive arsenal...