Word: blatantness
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...executive producer of the legendary Tonight show when her protege, Jay Leno, succeeded Johnny Carson in May. Then with an almost willful recklessness, Kushnick reportedly began demanding that stars who wanted to appear with Leno on the Tonight show had to boycott his competitors -- especially Arsenio Hall. The blatant violation of Hollywood's get along-go along culture led to the inevitable: Kushnick was ousted from her job by NBC last week. Leno said in a release that her removal was unwarranted, but otherwise kept silent -- perhaps realizing that the best thing to do at this point...
...Asija, a Connecticut inventor, attended the conference in order to gauge public reaction to his invention, "Swift-Answer," which is a combined spell checker and grammar checker. The software, designed for "people who make mistakes," converts blatant errors into understandable prose, according to Asija...
...sees playing for St. Matthew's as his ticket to Harvard and he is willing to compromise some of his values to get it. For example, he plays a big game on Rosh Hoshanna even though he promised his parents that he wouldn't. He also has to tolerate blatant anti-Semitism from his peers: He listens to their Jew jokes and even hides his star of David in a box of band-aids...
...that they can skip from London to country and from town house to studio when the need arises, as it so often does. Their conversation is spare and broody and liberally sprinkled with dots: "I lack the . . . the stamina . . . yes." Along the way the cliches mount, crowned by the blatant use of children's deaths to prod the action toward some kind of climax; otherwise Sin would be a serial. Here's hoping the other six vices are not on Hart's agenda...
...products as miracle cures that will make users look younger or more alluring. But Estee Lauder's Prescriptives had something else in mind when it introduced All Skins, a line of 115 foundation shades spanning the color spectrum from antelope to mahogany. Its foundation, the company promised in a blatant appeal to African Americans and other women of color, "matches your skin tone exactly." The message hit home: All Skins now adds 4,000 new black customers a month, and overall foundation sales are up 50%. This fall, rival Revlon will also offer a line of makeup specifically for black...