Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's probably nothing that Warner or anyone else can do about these trends. Strategic philanthropy and cause marketing are hot because they serve business well while raising billions of dollars for worthy causes. It's a classic win-win. A recent survey by Cone Communications and the Roper Group found that 76% of consumers would switch to a corporate brand or product that supports worthy causes, provided that the price and quality were on a par with other goods. That's up from 66% in a 1993 study...
...were true. So what is the truth? "I can't comment on the motive," says Sussex County prosecutor Dennis O'Leary. "But I can tell you what it's not. There was no intent to rob. It was not an initiation. It was not a cult. None of the classic elements like revenge or greed seemed to be present. I think that's what bothers people. They want a reason." Franklin's peace is no more...
...weekend of April 12 and 13, Radcliffe brought home the title in the Ruggers Spring Classic at Stony Brook...
...subjects are art direction, special effects and the show-off panache with which its director and co-writer, Luc Besson, deploys them." Besson's energy and inventiveness are considerable and, up to a point, quite entertaining. Indeed, one could argue that his work offers a distinct kinetic improvement over classic sci-fi, generally a talky and static genre with its space voyagers forever standing around discussing whatever strange phenomena they encountered in their travels, and none too subtly offering futuristic metaphors to help the audience understand. On the other hand, Besson, like most pop futurists these days, has nothing...
...course, is that the audience never once sees Charlie or Myra throughout the course of the play, though their private lives become the primary concern of everyone on stage. Despite what the title promises, rumors don't really play a crucial role in all this. There's no classic stripping away of pretenses and whispered suggestions to reveal deliciously nasty truths and scandals that implicate all the characters. Nothing, in fact, is revealed: we never do find out what exactly happened to Charlie and Myra, and it doesn't matter. What does matter is the effect their unseen presence...