Word: cartiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...restricted markets in Japan and Southeast Asia, those countries fought to keep them out. Meanwhile, the debate over "intellectual property" mostly pitted the developed against the developing world. GATT's new language for patents and copyrights gives the developed countries better weapons to fight piracy and counterfeiting of Cartier watches, Madonna videos or Lotus spreadsheet software -- an epidemic problem in Asia and Latin America that costs the U.S. $60 billion a year in lost sales...
Picture a kindergarten of the future as the teacher calls the alphabetical roll: "Armani, Burberry, Cartier, Fendi, Gucci, Hermes . . ." all the way down to ". . . Valentino, Vuitton and Zabar." Instead of superhero lunch boxes, these kids will tote personalized shopping bags. And what about children cursed with parents whose taste in store names is simply too plebeian? On Geraldo, talk-show shrinks will discuss the trauma of low-rent names like Kmart Smith and Shoe-Town Jones...
...decision to film in black-and-white is crucial to the Kaurismaki's success in creating a subtly textured evocation of the city. It as if Kaurismaki had lifted his film from the photographs of Tabard, Izis and Cartier-Bresson. Just as Peter Greenaway calls to mind old master paintings in the composition of his scenes, Kaurismaki insinuates these great photographers of Paris, as well as the tradition of French black-and-white film. He spares no effort to achieve this effect, using a double dose of chiaroscuro lighting and urban mist...
Then there were the helicopter trips, the accounts at Tiffany and Cartier for Empire employees and directors, the fleet of 123 cars, the $130,000 in art and sculpture, the $62,832 in tacky silk plants, the $48,000 in computer and security systems in Cardone's home and so on. As part of an aborted redesign of his office, the imperious Cardone bought a $20,000 Chippendale desk, which was placed in storage and never used...
Actor Mark S. Cartier does a strong job as the beleaguered Lord Edgar and Jane Twisden, the housekeeper with a secret to hide. His Jane is a perfect re-creation of the archetypal matron devoted to her house and to her mistress...