Word: elements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules and an influx of such yuppie-swank companies as Volvo and Braun to the $750 million infomercial business have resulted in the marketing of fewer gadgets ending in the suffix o-matic. In addition, Barry Diller's purchase of QVC has given the entire home-shopping industry an element of cachet. Diller was introduced to QVC by his friend Diane Von Furstenberg, who sells a line of women's clothes on the channel, and he is luring other upscale designers, among them Karl Lagerfeld, who has expressed interest in selling his chic apparel on the network...
...boredom by throwing only sharp, sidelong glances at old-age issues like straitened circumstances and the death of friends. And the fact that Matthau and Lemmon are playing men of their own ages (73 and 68), which Harris and Duvall (61 and 63) are not, adds authenticity and an element of gallantry to the movie. It also suggests a solution to the problem of old age: if you're healthy, keep working...
...killed by an I.R.A. gunman in the town of Crossmaglen on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The killing was the first by the I.R.A. since Ireland and Britain signed the Downing Street Declaration, which outlines a step-by-step peace plan for Northern Ireland. One element of the plan is that the I.R.A. must forswear violence for three months in order to be included in negotiations...
...hundred-dollar Christmas tree. When asked for explanation, the newly elected committee co-chair, Kristen Galanek, said the committee made a distinction between the Hanukkah party, which "had the explicit purpose of being a religious party," and the Christmas tree, which was "kind of secular" and had "no religious element about...
Kristin M. Galanek '95, the newly elected committee co-chair, defended the tree as a holiday symbol. "From my point of view, the Hanukkah party had the explicit purpose of being a religious party," she said. "The tree was kind of secular. There is no religious element about...