Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French firm, has lost at least $9 million since it was opened three years ago. But the large U.S. chains believe they can make the idea work by selling name-brand goods at paper-thin markups. K mart announced last September that it will form a joint venture with Bruno's, an Alabama-based grocery-store group, to open a national hypermarket chain. Archrival Wal-Mart, meanwhile, hopes to open 50 Hypermart USA stores during the next eight years...
...whole generation has become bored reciting 'I'll have a glass of white wine,' and then having something set in front of them that tastes foul and has no kick," explains Ed Moose, proprietor of the Washington Square Bar & Grill in San Francisco. "Young people are switching," concurs Bruno Mooshei, owner of Persian Aub Zam Zam across town. "I hear them say, 'Now I know why my parents drank martinis...
...rolls. One feels compelled to credit much of this material to Williams instead of Screenwriter Mitch Markowitz. But he has created a smart and intricate context for the star. The station's staff constitutes a sort of awkward squad of the airwaves, commanded by Lieut. Hauk (Bruno Kirby, who lifts nerdiness to a new comic plain), but anchored in patient decency by Private First Class Garlick (Forest Whitaker, who lovably redefines the straight man's role...
...what musicals might be, blending innovation and old-fashioned storytelling into an elixir of delight. It makes audiences think of Freud and Jung, of dark psychological thickets and sudden clearings of enlightenment, even as they roar with laughter. Its basic insight, plainly influenced by the revisionist scholarship of Bruno Bettelheim, is that at heart, most fairy tales are about the loving yet embattled relationship between parents and children. Almost everything that goes wrong -- which is to say, almost everything that can -- arises from a failure of parental or filial duty, despite the best intentions...
...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...