Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many regional banks like M & T of Buffalo hope to kindle customer loyalty by offering some of the personal touches that most big-city institutions have left behind. In the summer and fall, M & T stages daily concerts and fashion shows in a downtown plaza across from its main office. One M & T teller at a drive-up window hands out dog biscuits to customers with pets in their cars. The bank tries to make elderly customers feel at home by serving coffee and doughnuts and providing low-cost checking accounts with reassuring names like Worry Free...
...Yorker short story staff writer seemed assured, he felt himself on top of the world. But success and celebrity took big toll on Cheever. His daughter claims he became "quite pompous about himself," and his drinking, which had always been heavy according to the socially acceptable fashion of New York literati, became increasingly so. And as Cheever became aware of his homosexuality, his embarrassment over the fact, and his fear of being discovered, further intensified his alcoholism: "I think it was partly his fear of his own desires that kept my father drinking...
...profs aren't as perfect as their students might fashion them to be. More than once, Vinnie wants to tell her new love that, despite his protestations to the contrary, she really isn't very nice. They meet on a transatlantic flight, in fact, not because of Vinnie's natural charm but despite her best efforts, so typical of the tenured academic set, to put him off. She would deny him even a glance at her newspaper, were she not unfamiliar with the proper form of that particular snub. And the more physical manifestations of love-well. Vinnie still finds...
...associate with anything bad. I guess," says Howard Hay of Harvard Cleaners in Philadelphia. But while Flay says he thinks the name safeguards the company apiarist all image of inferiority, he say he doesn't think it helps bring in more business because "Harvard doesn't really distinguish fashion care...
...When special people ask me to do special things I do them," says Veronica Ali, 28, the third wife of former Heavyweight Champ Muhammad Ali. One of those special people is French Fashion Designer Andre Courreges, whose clothes she agreed to model for the opening of his boutique in New York City. In fact, she is getting asked to do more and more modeling and TV commercial work, including spots for Chrysler and Crystal Light diet drink. She is even taking acting lessons. Does her Black Muslim husband approve? "He knows I'm selective and he knows...