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...discretionary spending, luxury executives and retailers are scrambling to redefine themselves. Tiffany & Co. is opening smaller stores. J. Crew has set up shop in a former Tribeca bar and propped it with real liquor bottles along with the bow ties. Times may be tough, but things of great beauty???objects, food, buildings, places, clothing, jewelry?will never lose their appeal. There is a widely accepted theory that in moments of real political, social or economic stress, lipstick sales spike. People may spend less on frivolous items and shop more judiciously, but when they do shop, they will demand more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whither Luxury? | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...black and grey Bentley snaked south out of Los Angeles along the Santa Ana Freeway, shook free of the traffic, and began to climb fast on a mountain road through the open country. At the wheel was a shapely brunette beauty???secretary, assistant and part-time chauffeur to the man in the back seat listening to Mantovani on a built-in stereophonic tape recorder. The car stopped on the mountaintop, where a friend was waiting; the man got out, a trim 6 feet with heavy-lidded blue eyes and an actor's dash. The wind riffled his wavy, iron-grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Man with The Plan | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

...Settlement. In spite of troublous t'ao pings (bandits), a week-end expedition is organized to a temple some distance out of the city. Two love-affairs?between Derek, an attractive attaché, and Judith, Mrs. LeRoy's niece; and between expertly amorous Henri and Annette, a silly U. S. beauty???begin to blossom on the trip. Mrs. LeRoy lends them both bits of her wisdom, begins to need it all for herself when Professor Vinstead falls in love with her. The t'ao pings capture the picnic party. For a few hours it looks as if all love-affairs were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baedeker Hollandaise | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...forest, and her grace and beauty belonged to the forest, while I, for good or bad, belonged to the world of men, and to this I must return. So I contented myself with giving her a photograph of myself? it was a passport photograph and revealed my beauty???and one kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explorer's Temptation | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...recorded life of the world for 50 years?wars, dreams, bankruptcies, inventions, good crops and bad crops, dead presidents, murdered archdukes, life in all its scuffle and fire, its dinginess, its mournful, miraculous beauty??? passed under his direct scrutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dastard Cleverness | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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