Word: cabin
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...Meyer, Phase Three: "Vixen" and his other color comedies "Good Morning...and Goodbye," "Common Law Cabin," "Finder Keepers, Lovers Weepers," "Cherry, Harry & Raquel!" These films took the narrative excess and exuberance of the "Lorna"-period movies and lead-footedly revved up the pace, until they were little frenzies of lust and frustration. The playing of the actresses was even more aggressive, of the actors even more perplexed. The humor was foregrounded; now the world could say, for sure, "Oh - he's kidding," allowing uncomplicated enjoyment of the bustling and the busts. "Vixen," the snazziest of this crowd, was Meyer...
...Burns is something of a pioneer. An avid hiker who likes to spend time at her North Carolina cabin, she became the first female CFO of a major airline two years ago, after becoming the first woman partner in the Atlanta office of accounting firm Arthur Andersen. "Most airlines echo the military structure, where many of the executives used to come from," she says, "but Delta has evolved into an organization that you might say is more welcoming to a female style. We reach across the company and use a team approach. And we don't follow the chain...
...most seasons, the Lolo is passable only from July to mid-September. At the Lolo Pass (elev.: 5,233 ft.), the Forest Service is building a log cabin and a warming hut that will serve as a Lewis and Clark interpretive center when finished later this year...
...worldwide slowdown in business travel, airlines are jetting ahead with long-term plans to upgrade their business-class perks. The reason: they don't want to be left behind when the sector takes off again. Cathay Pacific spokesman Patrick Garrett admits that investing in luxury touches like an in-cabin cocktail bar while the economy takes a nosedive seems counterintuitive, but it's the only way to keep patrons coming back. "Business class is the most competitive market, an airline's biggest profit earner and comprises the most demanding customers," says Garrett...
...restaurant-style gourmet meals?why bother with first class? "We worry that business class is cannibalizing our first class," says Singapore Airlines' manager of product development, Sim Kim Chui. "But ultimately our first-class passengers seek the exclusivity and space that comes from being one of 12 in a cabin, not one of 50." These days, however, even second class is first-rate...