Word: bananas
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...long, he says. Esprit is plotting to replant and revive itself on its former home turf with new stores and a long-term investment plan. To succeed, the company must battle for the fickle American shopper with such entrenched chains as H&M and Banana Republic in a very crowded, hypercompetitive casualwear market. "They're inhabiting the middle of the pack, and it's going to be tough for them to break out," says Steve Harty, chairman of the New York City office of ad agency BBH. Consider the Gap, which is struggling mightily to find its fashion mojo...
...that when stranded men are rescued by women it's comedy but when women are rescued by men it's an action film? Females have exactly the same rights to louse up and slack off and be really immature and dysfunctional as men do. If you put a banana peel in front of us, do we not slip? Enough is enough. The time has come to rise up, my sisters! Let's fight for our right to be in the wrong...
...Much of the destruction has occurred out of sight of the international media. Before last week, it took little less than an hour to reach Tyre from Beirut, a speedy cruise down the coastal highway past the banana plantations and orange groves that fill the narrow littoral wedged between the Mediterranean sea and the Lebanese mountains. Not any more. After Israel's onslaught against Lebanon began last Wednesday, the southern portion of the country was quickly sealed off after all the bridges crossing the Litani river, which runs across much of southern Lebanon, were destroyed and roads cratered, making them...
Freshman Seminar 36l, “A Cultural History of the Banana...
Freshman Seminar 36l. “A Cultural History of the Banana...