Word: ethane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...color, make yourself comfortable for a while," says John Baugh, senior analyst at Wheat First Union in Richmond, Va. But venture capitalists don't seem to believe it. In six months they have poured $200 million into start-ups with names like Furniture.com and Living.com In July, Ethan Allen, the Danbury, Conn., firm that has furnished upper-middle-class American living rooms for 67 years, decided to buck conventional wisdom and open an online store this fall...
...challenge, but Ethan Allen is willing to try, and the veteran company could be traditional furniture's best shot at e-commerce, says analyst Baugh. "They have a very sophisticated customer base and an established brand name," he says. Ethan Allen is also unique among furniture retailers in that its prices are consistent nationally, and the company manufactures 90% of its own products. For all these reasons, CEO Farooq Kathwari suspected that e-commerce might be a good...
...life. Often, these pleasures don't even have to be shallow; some of the best movies inspire simple reactions and simple pleasures. There is so much joy in the way Gene Kelly hops and swoons through puddles in Singing in the Rain, or so much tenderness in the way Ethan Hawke sets his arm around Julie Delpy's shoulder in Before Sunrise, there isn't room for anything complicated. How many emotions in life can be so simple, or so pure...
...suppose some of the sting is taken out of it if your own kid is the one who has suddenly become unspeakably wealthy. Even then, there must be something disorienting about having to answer, when an old friend asks how little Ethan is getting along in his first job, "Well, he doesn't tell us much--you know how boys that age are--but the last issue of Forbes said he's worth $2 billion...
...that the middle-aged Mikhail Baryshnikov has retrofitted himself as a modern dancer, what young hotshot is going to fill his ballet slippers? A.B.T.'s Ethan Stiefel debuted in the Baryshnikov role of Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove in New York City last week, giving a performance that had the stylistic curiosity, the eye-grabbing virtuosity--everything, in fact, but Misha's sly wit. There will never, ever be another Baryshnikov, but Stiefel, 26, is well on his way to becoming the great American male ballet dancer of his generation...