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...glittered, and otherwise festive foliage-inspired clothing. Examples of the holiday sweater are everywhere: Victoria’s Secret, a catalog of often dubious taste that seems to feature clothing best left in the early 90s, sells an array of knits plastered with festive graphics. Among the bounteous array of holiday garb available is the “snowy keyhole sweater,” a confusing mixture of wholesome Christmas-related imagery (snowflakes adorn the front) and typically Victoria’s Secret-style tack (the keyhole neckline) and also the “Christmas tree sweater...
Late in summer the bounteous season, fills both the larder and the comix shelf. One year ago TIME.comix did a roundup of interesting anthology books and this season has produced another crop. This time we focus on the products of a burgeoning trend in comix: small, boutique publishers who have found the gospel of production values. Presses like Avodah and AdHouse are now giving lush, full-color, square-bound, heavy-paper-stock treatment to those artists who only recently knew only photocopy carbon and staples. Leapfrogging comix into the realm of fine arts, this new attention to the aesthetics...
...violence. This season Jack Bauer killed and decapitated a prisoner on 24, and a helicopter blade lopped off Dr. Romano's arm on E.R., while on Friends, married couple Monica and Chandler got advice on sex positions--from Monica's dad. Each show enjoys high ratings and bounteous ads. Perversely, this may be bad for Kingpin, because, let's face it, when a network bravely admits that a new show may be too dangerous for TV, the danger is precisely the selling point...
...selling business today, you need only have sat in Radio City Music Hall Monday afternoon and listened to NBC Entertainment President (and former "Today" producer) Jeff Zucker explain what "good times" these are for the TV-ad-selling business. In 1999 and 2000 - those halcyon, bounteous days when dot-com pioneers bestrode the land like giants, tossing multi-million-dollar ad buys to networks like parade marshals tossing penny candy to children - NBC was strong and rich and could laugh at itself. Its upfront presentations were like Friars roasts, with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (of Conan O'Brien fame...
Take the economy. Everyone knows it's slowing and that corporate profits will fade in tandem. Bad news for stocks, right? But wait. With inflation tame, the Federal Reserve has room to lower interest rates, prevent a recession and kick off another bounteous period of accelerating growth...