Word: cachet
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...bronze statue Charity (2003) was one of only two items to survive the blaze. Hirst's oeuvre already fetches top prices - a 1992 piece went for $1 million in May - but Charity's brush with death is bound to increase both its cash value and cultural cachet...
...anything, for me it adds to his cachet,” Fox said. “I’d rather I had more teachers who were flying back and forth than teachers who have nothing better to do than teach a course at Harvard...
...ignored until the very last possible minute. It’s sometimes scary to think about what we would talk about were it not for the mountain of work that provides a pretty much constant bantering and bickering in dining halls every night. There’s a certain cachet in leaving a ridiculous amount of work until 3 a.m. the night before and indulging in the rituals of procrastination that go along with it: cleaning obsessively because “I just can’t work at a messy desk” (that may be, but it probably...
...Trump may get most of what he wants anyway--not because of his managerial acumen but because the brand he has promoted so tirelessly is a key asset. "His name has cachet," says Kim Noland, debt analyst at Gimme Credit newsletter. "That might actually help with customer count." Trump is a tough negotiator too. He knows from experience that when you owe billions, the creditors are in just as much trouble as you are. And he isn't all that desperate. His outsize ego could no doubt handle the potential Atlantic City bankruptcy, and his stake in the casino properties...
...think that Jonathan Demme’s flair can compensate for a script written by a guy whose past credits include The Sum of All Fears and Doc Hollywood. On the other hand, I don’t think that remakes are necessarily bad, especially with the right cachet; I was fine with paying top dollar to see the Psycho remake, for example, because I couldn’t pass up the chance to see William H. Macy and Julianne Moore slotted into a Hitchcock movie. I would also enjoy a shot-by-shot North by Northwest remake starring Jeff...