Word: eau
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...excels at pretty much everything around here. Steve grew up near Pewaukee, Wis., and lived on the site of an old lakeside amusement park that his grandfather had taken over and subdivided. His dad was in media too: he owned a billboard company. Steve attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Department of Serendipity: its motto is Excellence). In 1981, he became a reporter in the Business section, just in time to catch the din of the roaring '80s. He helped chronicle the rise of the business celebrity, writing covers on Michael Eisner and Ralph Lauren, and the consumer side...
...place, a letter-perfect re-creation of the quotidian details of World War II Europe that wraps around us like the rich fug of a wartime railway station. He puts us on the exact street where the Daisy Bar sat in Montmartre, gives us the heavy smell of an eau de toilette called Zouave. His stories rumble along in the dreary trains that seemed to be forever crisscrossing Europe...
...wholeheartedly. In addition to its Texas-shape fountain, complete with oil well, the company has trademarked a line of whimsical frog fountains, and is developing one with giggling piglets. "It gets more absurd as we go along," admits president Suzanne Harper. Coming soon: a gargling Billy Bass jet d'eau...