Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show off black-lace garters in the film, many female movie-goers -- as well as some men shopping for their sweethearts -- rushed out to look for similar items. "There's no question Bull Durham has brought new recognition to the garter belt," says Margery Rubin Cohen, spokeswoman for the Columbus-based Victoria's Secret lingerie chain. At Frederick's of Hollywood stores, sales of garters shot up 15% in the month following the film's release. Though Frederick's offers garters in six colors and ten styles, the black-lace model accounts for 75% of sales...
...estimated three-quarters of all minor-league clubs are running in the black, in contrast to one-quarter 15 years ago. One Triple A team, the Columbus Clippers, earned $665,000 last year. Of the twelve Class A teams in the Midwest League last year, eleven earned profits that averaged $30,000 a team. That may not sound like much, but some of the owners bought or started their teams for less than...
Experts tend to agree on just who and what put them there. Mary Lindquist, professor of math education at Columbus College in Georgia and a co-author of the report, comes down hard on teaching methods. "We have taught kids to be little calculators, but they do not know why they do what they do," she says, adding, "They don't know what numbers mean." James Vasquez, superintendent of San Antonio's Edgewood school district, where 94% of the pupils are Hispanic, blames substandard preparation for teachers. He points out that Texas, like many other states, certifies elementary teachers...
...friend in my House played organ at a small gospel church on Sundays. More and more I spent Sundays on Columbus Avenue in Roxbury. I never joined--I have too many metaphysical doubts ever to be a fundamentalist. But the instinctive comfort in gospel or blues remains with me to this day whether I know the song...
Tomas (Daniel Day Lewis) has an urgent demand, repeated to every woman he meets: "Take off your clothes." A handsome Prague surgeon, he is also an epic womanizer -- a kind of Columbus or Cousteau, eager to chart the provocative depths of womankind. "Is every woman a new land, whose secrets you want to discover?" The questioner is Sabina (Lena Olin), a painter and Tomas' frequent mistress whose principal props are her mirror and her quaint black bowler. The mirror is Sabina's canvas, her lover, her critic; the hat is an emblem of her willingness to walk...