Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Maggio is keen on tests of skill and perseverance. For example, he once won a radio by submitting twelve entries to a rock radio station's Easter-egg design contest. Recently Maggio, 23, began playing Beatrice's Monday Night Winning Lineup contest. Cards for the game were available in display cases in grocery stores. On the cards were two rows of dots, and contestants had to scratch them off to reveal the number of field goals and touchdowns scored in a particular football game. The grand prize was a trip valued at $20,000 for eight to the Super...
...titans have helped stimulate that growth by becoming more marketing-minded. They now invent fanciful personalities for their toys, design cartoon shows to promote them and produce endless follow-up products to keep children coming back for more. The companies aim to make their toys into celebrities so that children will accept no substitutes. The strategy is working. Youngsters now pick out their playthings with the fussiness of a young professional shopping for his or her first Saab. "They are smart kids growing up very fast," says Polly Hallett, marketing director for Fisher- Price toys...
...fatal: in Paterson, N.J., Tscherin Soobzokov, 61, a veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS, was injured by a bomb that detonated when he opened his front door. He died a month later. The Los Angeles Times has reported that the bombs used in all three cases were of similar design. The JDL has denied involvement in the attacks...
...offers neither warmth nor light. But cold as it may be, jewelry has been delighting women since women were around to be delighted. Though the great days of jewelry design have come and mostly gone, they have not disappeared entirely, as Barbara Cartlidge's Twentieth-Century Jewelry (Abrams; 238 pages; $60) very handsomely makes clear. In the early part of the century, designers like the Spaniard Luis Masriera were turning out lovely art nouveau brooches--golden angels balancing gleaming pearls--and as late as 1949 Salvador Dali transformed one of his famous surrealistic eyes into a diamond, ruby and enamel...
...formal gowns to studded leather bikini shorts for men. There's a baker who specializes in anatomically explicit cakes, and the Pleasure Chest serves as a hardware store for the sexually adventurous. For those with more homely tastes, West Hollywood functions as the West Coast capital of the interior-design and home-furnishing trades, which are headquartered in the 530-ft.-long, six-story Pacific Design Center, sculpted of neon blue glass and known locally as the Blue Whale...