Word: cachet
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...house and the drive-in. Eventually, as noted, Meyer's films graduated from the agricultural school frat house to the Yale film society. Metzger's films, which were thoughtfully reviewed by Vincent Canby in the New York Times and Schickel in Life, never quite acquired the Meyer cachet - perhaps because his pictures needed to be viewed in seriousness and solitude, while Meyer's vigorous farce-melodramas could simultaneously be laughed at and cheered...
...stay with something for a long time, it would have to go back to New Jersey," she says. Not wanting to make her heroine, Stephanie Plum, a private eye or a cop, Evanovich made her a bounty hunter who tracks down suspects who jump bail. "It had such cachet, the Wild West thing," she says. "It was something with a lot of personal freedom to it. Then I had to find out what bounty hunters do." She also had to learn to shoot a gun so Stephanie could...
...risk is that Ford could sully the cachet of its luxury vehicles. Says Prudential Securities analyst Michael Bruynesteyn: "If you leverage platforms and components, it has to be done in a way consumers don't notice." Already purists sniff that Jaguar's S-Type shares so many parts with the Lincoln LS and Ford Thunderbird that it is a Ford alley cat in a Jaguar's skin...
...Cannes' Asian spirit been broken? Like a dot-com stock, the cachet of Chinese, Japanese and Korean films soared through the '90s. What was once a nonentity became a new wave. Asia had it all: a rigorous art-film movement and?in Hong Kong action films, Indian musicals and Korean romances?a vigorous populist streak. Inevitably, these achievements produced high expectations. Now Asian films are judged by the strictest standards: the ones they set for themselves. So Asia takes a brief break from trendiness, as Cannes discovers new "hot" cinemas in Latin America and the Middle East...
...class of its own, Land Rover's lower-priced suvs (in the $22,700 to $49,000 range) are battling in one of the industry's most competitive segments. Then there's that $1.4 billion investment to recoup. Sales alone won't do the job. But Range Rover's cachet could yield a "halo effect" that boosts sales of all Land Rover models - even a lower-priced "baby" Range Rover that Reitzle envisions...