Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fear they lack the requisite communications skills can order a love letter by phone, fax or mail from Love Letters Ink, a Los Angeles company for those suffering from lover's block. Founded four years ago by Martine Greber, Love Letters has written more than 25,000 letters for customers worldwide. The catalog offers selections for < lovers, friends and even in-laws, and features headings like General Love, New Relationship and, as a nod to the '90s, a 12-Step Birthday. Prices start at $16.95, delivery not included. If you can't find what you want, Love Letters will compose...
...system, then offers his audience more specialized wares. He cites Buckminster Fuller's appeal for a fundamental "design change" of society. To loud applause from the assembled acolytes of acupuncture, psychoshamanism and touch therapy, he declares that any vast health-care reform "should also recognize alternative healing modalities." The custom-tailored sermon, delivered with rat-a-tat intensity, goes over so effectively that he is coaxed into a second performance for all the healers and spiritualists who were unable to squeeze into the auditorium for the first...
Having infiltrated every nook, cranny and copy machine in the modern office, the electronics revolution is starting to work its magic in the workshop. Tools that date back to the Iron Age can now take advantage of two decades of technological advances, including lightweight rechargeable batteries, custom- made computer chips, liquid-crystal readouts and semiconductor sensors. Result: a new generation of smart tools that promise to bring the benefits of the computer age to those who like to work with their hands...
...squat and broad-shouldered man, no more than 5 ft. 3 in. tall. He had been born Isoroku Takano, the first name meaning 56, because that was the age at which his proud father had been presented with his sixth and last son. Later adopted, according to an old custom, into a richer family, he acquired a new name: Yamamoto...
...Bonfire had its crape custom tailored. Consider the casting, on both sides of the screen. Producer Peter Guber and screenwriter Michael Cristofer, who had earlier coarsened John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision is all muscle, no finesse. Tom Hanks lacked the slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance...