Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to eliminate the hassle and embarrassment involved in buying contraceptives," said Carl F. Graef, a co-founder of the budding firm. "Generally, our customers are just people who don't feel like going to the drugstore. Now they don't have to look the guy in the eye and say, 'I'd like a condom, please...
...activity on the nation's exchanges. Win! Win! Win! Millions, even billions, are being pocketed almost overnight, in split-second transactions affecting the fate of some of America's most important corporations. Lose! Lose! Lose! At the same time, Wall Street is struggling to recover in the public eye from some of the worst insider-trading scandals in its history...
...Minnelli musical. Rifat Ozbek, whose clothes have an easy, funky swank and a kind of surreptitious sophistication, neatly encapsulated London's trend toward revisionist sartorial conservatism, where rock style has been replaced by bemused manor- house dressing. Milan's Romeo Gigli, working with finesse and the wily eye of a fine stylist, accomplished the inevitable: he took the vaunting ideas of Japan's great fashion designers, tailored them down and gave them fresh commercial pertinence. The upstart fashion of all three designers brought a leavening of zest to what was, in large part, a problematic season...
...Gigli's eye, whatever it is checking out, is distinctly on target. If his label gives potential pronunciation difficulty (Row-may-o Gee-lee would be a reasonably safe try), the clothes, once worn, are instantly understandable. They indulge the body, bestowing a kind of inward elegance that the designer says "begins with how a woman today moves, how she expresses herself. Women today value their freedom; they do not want to feel compressed or crushed by what they wear." Like Ozbek, Gigli also studied architecture, but he works from individual pieces, not a grand design. The usual fashion practice...
...TELLING LAST FRIDAY MORNING WHEN HE CALLED THE BEIRUT OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. "SIMPLY, I'M HERE," HE ANNOUNCED. "SOMETHING MIGHT HAPPEN. NOTHING HARD YET, BUT IT'S MOVING." WITH A CHARACTERISTIC MIX OF BRAVADO AND DISCRETION, HE ADDED, "IT APPEARS TO BE MOVING. YOU KEEP AN EYE, JUST KEEP AN EYE. BYE-BYE FOR NOW." THEN...