Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which is based in San Bruno, Calif., has been an innovative leader in the specialty retail business that is siphoning sales away from department stores. Founded in 1969 by Entrepreneur Donald Fisher, the company relied heavily on the blue-jeans craze in the 1970s, but then added bright-colored, practical sports clothes. In 1983 Fisher made two shrewd moves. He bought Banana Republic, a San Francisco retailer with three stores and a catalog operation that sold trendy travel and safari wear, and he hired a new president, Millard Drexler, the marketing whiz from the Bronx who had turned around...
Plante, Wallace, Donaldson & Co. are rightly proud of their dogged surveillance of the most powerful man on earth. But the bright lights of power sooner or later blind almost everyone who bathes in them. Journalists were originally created to enlighten, not to threaten; to inform, not to perform; to know, not to show...
...never stifled by the brevity of the form. Within each short movement, the composer achieved a broad range of expression. His 'romantic' was romantic--resplendent in rolling arpeggios and octave runs. His 'energetic' evoked a clockwork sort of busy-ness with fast chromatic fingerwork; and his 'mysterious' combined bright interjections from the right hand over dense tone clusters and sombre, meandering notes in the bass to set a mood of eerie expectancy...
Well-made fictions like Fatal Attraction prosper because they seem more persuasive than fact. Nicolas Roeg's Castaway has another challenge. Just try believing that a bright, spirited woman like Lucy Irvine (Amanda Donohoe) would answer a man's ad for a desert-island mate and set out for a year alone with an impractical chap like Gerald Kingsland (Oliver Reed). But it did happen, and Roeg and Writer Allan Scott have made an engaging movie based on Irvine's memoir...
...word is location. Readers like to travel, to escape to a setting, preferably hot, sticky and fatally glamorous. Certain television producers understand this instinctively, which is why Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas do not star in a show called Toronto Vice. Canada's rising cosmopolis may suggest a bright promise of public responsibility and efficiency, but it is Miami whose hard-edged pastels define the pitiless sensuality...