Word: emphasisation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impulse Buying. Nassi's techniques begin with shrill broadcast and print advertising that promises huge discounts "on every single item, in every department, no exceptions!" Next comes "instore development": garish sale signs are displayed in windows; merchandise counters are removed to make way for extra cash registers. The emphasis...
The distinctively American style has emerged only in the past few years. Its spirit is free and frisky, its emphasis on casual comfort. Rejecting the rigid formalism of European haute couture, American designers rediscovered the body. They started making versatile, flexible attire that can carry a woman through the day...
Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara as Martha and George leer endearingly throughout with maddening control, periodically exploding barrages of verbal fire into vulnerable areas. Their conspiratorial magic transforms metaphysical ping-pong into a cooing and spitting that is pleasing to watch. Richard Kelton as Nick embodies the American Dream to...
In the cafes, students converse in rapid "left-bank" slang. Shops sell French clothes and business is conducted in French. Advertisements for French cigarettes and the names of long-defunct French businesses peer through hastily painted revolutionary slogans. The green and white National Liberation Front (FLN) flag flaps somewhat ludicrously...
Died. Grover C. Loening, 87, pioneering aeronautical engineer, prophet and author; from the effects of a stroke; in Miami. Loening held the first aeronautical degree granted by an American university (Columbia, 1910) and, as a member of Orville Wright's design team, was taught to fly by Orville himself...