Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holmes, who has seized on the classic notion that nothing is more arousing than violation of what is most sacred. Thus he has turned out a pair of dresses that are outraging some people (especially the devout) while delighting others. The designs, now being sold through the Paraphernalia boutique chain: a miniskirted version of a nun's habit and an equally abbreviated copy of a belted monk's robe, both with hoods that can be removed to reveal scooped necklines...
Cinematic disappointments have not seemed to impede Truffaut's aplomb. If anything, he has grown more secure and relaxed. Though he is still a chain-smoker, he abandoned nail biting when one of his daughters took it up. In a field where jealousies unreel at every screening, he remains genial. His praise extends to every film maker but one-Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni. "That is the one director whose sensibilities I cannot get inside," he says, possibly because the aridity of Antonioni's films is diametrically opposite to Truffaut's abiding humanism. Perhaps his favorite cinematic...
...decade ago, Jewel Tea Co. consisted of little more than a chain of Chicago-area supermarkets. Then it began branching into other lines and locations. Renamed the Jewel Companies, it has grown into a diverse, sprawling operation that Wall Street analysts now call a "retail conglomerate." Only too happy to shed the food-chain label, Jewel President Donald S. Perkins, 41, prefers to think of his new-look company as a general merchandiser serving "whatever needs the consumer may have...
Exploiting the Traffic. Jewel's expansion began during the mid-1950s under George Clements, 59, Perkins' predecessor as president and now Jewel's chairman. As food chains moved into suburban shopping centers, Clements' chain was among the first to recognize that supermarkets generated heavy traffic for neighboring specialty shops. Figuring that Jewel itself might just as well exploit that traffic, he began setting up separate specialty shops on his stores' premises-bakeries, gourmet delicatessens and cooked-food departments selling such takeout dishes as steak and pizza...
Jewel also began picking up other supermarket chains. It bought Eisner Food Stores (downstate Illinois and Indiana) in 1957, New England-based Star Markets in 1964, and the Buttrey supermarkets in Montana and Idaho two years ago. Moving abroad, it acquired stakes in one supermarket chain in Italy, another in Belgium. Jewel has also sensed a future in smaller food-store operations, is moving rapidly into franchised "convenience" shops and "Chef's Pantry" stores in high-rise apartment buildings...