Word: crewed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...With impeccable timing, Abrams welcomes the rest of the old crew of the Enterprise, young and fresh again, one by one to his dance floor. First up is Spock (Zachary Quinto, a slightly sexier version of Leonard Nimoy), who was bullied on Vulcan for having a human mother (Winona Ryder, seemingly still in character and costume from a Grey Gardens audition) and chose to take refuge in the Starfleet Academy. Then comes Uhura (Zoe Saldana), who rejects Kirk's leering come-on with just the crisp efficiency you'd expect...
...Although the First Lady has sparked retail sales for her chosen brands, it's too early to anoint her a savior. "Michelle Obama hasn't done enough to significantly change the financial performance of J. Crew and Talbots," says Betty Chen, retail analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities. J. Crew's same-store sales fell 13% in the fourth quarter of 2008. The company lost $13.5 million, compared with a $25 million profit in the fourth quarter of 2007. Talbots has updated its merchandise to fit its repositioning as a younger company. According to Chen, however, the company is too indebted...
...retailer owes more to the First Lady than J. Crew. In October, amid the Sarah Palin $150,000 wardrobe scandal, Obama wore a $340 J. Crew set on the Tonight Show. "Ladies, we know J. Crew," she said to the studio audience. J. Crew's Web traffic shot up 64% the next day, and the yellow blouse, cardigan and skirt she wore on the show sold out immediately. Later she wore a J. Crew camisole, cardigan and pencil skirt in the March 2009 issue of Vogue. A hefty wait-list immediately started for all three fall items...
...Then, in early April, she wore a $298 J. Crew cream hand-beaded cardigan, with a $158 "dazzling dots" pencil skirt, on a visit to a London cancer center with Sarah Brown, wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The photos shot around the globe. The cardigan sold out on J. Crew's website by 10 a.m. E.T. the same day. Two days later, it was selling for $600 on eBay. The wait-list for the cardigan at J. Crew exceeds 200. "I feel like I'm getting a present every day," says Jenna Lyons, creative director for J. Crew...
...than enough to enable it to make the trip to nationals, as it totaled 111 points, 46 better than the top-placing non-qualifying school in its division, Connecticut College.The Crimson’s efforts were led over the weekend by the B-division duo of Garrity and sophomore crew Grace Charles. They placed third in their division, starting and ending the weekend with victories and collecting another one along the way to bring their total to three wins over the two days of competition.“It was really a team effort out there this weekend...