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...catalog for "Virtue and Beauty," the show of portraits of Renaissance women on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through Jan. 6, art historian Joanna Woods-Marsden poses a question that probably hasn't occurred to many people. We're used to seeing the human face photographed, drawn, scribbled and painted on movie and television screens, on billboards, in fact on a vast range of surfaces in our world, including the rock of Mount Rushmore. But suppose we weren't? Suppose that representations of real people were rarer than hens' teeth and that the only artificial faces...
...bloody, terrifying, tragic and meaningless except as a test of a fighting man's virtue. Like every other great war movie, Black Hawk Down succeeds because it becomes, almost unintentionally, an antiwar movie--or at least one that can be read that way by anyone so inclined--a relentless catalog of the many absurd and accidental ways you can die when you are ordered into harm...
...turnaround I love is J.C. Penney, which has 2,600 Eckerd drugstores. That's really the jewel in the whole piece, and they own a catalog business that is quite good too. Alan Questrom came in in May of 2000 and turned it around. You can make a case that this stock will hit between $40 and $50, and the stock is now at $23. They're doing a lot of things: new operating systems, changing the merchandising, lowering price points. The story is definitely working. Eckerd's is a great business because they're in the greatest places. They...
...Italian versions of its American website last year. Says Sam Taylor, vice president of Lands' End international operations: "There's a feeling we want to come through in the copywriting when it's translated." For a women's gingham-check swimsuit, marketed to French customers, Berlitz modified the catalog copy to read, "L'effet B.B. assure!" (the B.B. look guaranteed!), a reference to Brigitte Bardot, who made gingham fashionable...
GRECIAN PEPPER MILLS, $70 For high-end kitchen equipment like these professional-style pepper mills, shop Chef's Catalog www.chefscatalog.com) Don't miss the section of gift ideas for less than $50. Pick up specialty tools and basic kitchenware here...