Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while ambling past a hunt-country-style wooden fence in tennis shorts and sweater. The ad is clearly intended to make a family-to-family connection between the Governor and her electorate. But its unintended effect is to remind viewers of the wide chasm that separates this upper-crust clan, which beds down at the 222-acre Pontefract Farm, from the average undecided voter trying to pay the taxes on a row house in Bayonne...
Water is melted under the satellites' ice crust because of the friction from the flexing...
...Mart is retailing's biggest fixer-upper, and Stewart, author of laborious decorating tips and arbiter of God-is-in-the-details perfectionism, is in the midst of injecting it with a large dose of the upper-crust life-style that is Martha Stewart living. In a joint venture with K Mart, Stewart has launched a signature paint (with Sherwin-Williams) and home collection: Martha Stewart Everyday, the first salvo in an all-out assault on K Mart's style sensibility. If Stewart has her way (and she usually does), America will soon be changing its sheets the Martha...
...Elvis Presley, right around his 19th birthday. This primitive demo tape is among the treasures in RCA's four-CD, 100-song set Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music. The package, eloquently annotated by Colin Escott and with 77 newly released tracks, means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley's image and recast him as a powerful vocalist...
MUSIC: "With 77 newly released tracks," writes TIME's Richard Corliss, "RCA?s four-CD set 'Elvis Presley Platinum: A Life in Music' means to scrape away the crust of camp idolatry from Presley?s image and re-establish him as a powerful, pioneering vocalist." Corliss is happy to report that it does. "The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis," he writes. Still, before the decline, we had in a young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer...