Word: chic
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...valuable minutes at the start of a lecture rubbing an aching arm and shoulder before I could start writing down what the prof said. Taking a cue from classmates, I finally got a large, wide-strapped bag with a third strap that wrapped around the hips. It wasn't chic but it did wonders for my sore muscles--and note taking...
...good business, for example, to portray the Joad family traveling west in a sleek eight-cylinder Packard sedan, Tom Joad's diamond Rolex flashing in the Dust Bowl air. The poor do not make good ads..... Or do they? Might be edgy possibilities here, a kind of Walker Evans chic - a good spread in Vanity Fair, page after page of gaunt black-and-white shots, weathered Depression faces, a certain erotic poverty...
Berthillon's exclusive delicacies lure thousands of sweet-toothed clients to his Ile St. Louis shop each year. Founded in 1954 by Raymond Berthillon and his wife, the shop became a favored spot for well-heeled Parisians before travel books began letting tourists in on the chic secret in the 1970s...
...Following is a quick rundown of what you might expect to bid on at Prince Jefri?s auction, and what you can find at my sidewalk sale next weekend. I think you?ll find, as I have, that sometimes good old American shabby chic (emphasis on shabby) is just as good as fabulously extravagant pieces of art. (Sometimes, of course...
...analysts say it is Sher who should worry. Chinese manufacturers have been slow to realize the value of making a PDA chic, rather than boxy and utilitarian. Many of China's device makers mock Palm for producing a Michael Jordan PDA. Zhang, a savvy marketer, was the first Chinese PDA manufacturer to understand the role of whim and fashion in the industry. He turned his product into a household name with the help of a massive television advertising campaign featuring China's debonair movie heartthrob, Pu Quanxin. Zhang has also proved to be a clever distributor. He secretly installs...