Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bell Atlantic: This half-hour "sitcommercial" about a tiresome family called the Ringers -- actually a home-shopping vehicle for Bell Atlantic with lots of phone jokes -- has been airing weekend afternoons and late nights in Baltimore, and is coming soon to other Eastern cities. The company is threatening to make it a continuing series. What's next? The Carpenters, for Home Depot...
...solutions that cover up deep financial and technological wounds. IBM's challenge is not just to shrink in size but also to remake itself completely into a nimbler and more market-oriented player, in much the same way that American Telephone & Telegraph reshaped itself after the breakup of the Bell System eight years ago. And even that would hardly be enough to restore IBM's dominance in an increasingly fast-moving and decentralized industry that is becoming less and less dependent on a single pacesetter...
...rivalry are pursued with a ferocity that prompts youngsters in the audience to pinch the overdressed child in the next seat. For the parents, Morris, 37, and his visual collaborator, comic-strip artist Charles Burns, also 37, offer heavily freighted tableaux -- how it was, way back when people wore bell-bottoms and leisure suits, and how it is now, when the wish for a perfect family Christmas collides with the need to knock back some extra holiday cheer...
...Virtually all the top spring collections are presenting a decidedly new look -- soft, fluid and romantic -- but Karan and Lauren showed the most imaginative interpretation of the change. Among the strong sellers in Karan's line: the poet's blouse, a white viscose creation with flared cuffs ($450); navy bell-bottom pants ($650); and an elongated wool crepe vest...
Battle, who rings his bell every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., said that the average pedestrian is much more friendly and giving nowadays. He attributed the change to "Christmas cheer...