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...tried not to look as if they had wandered into a Star Dreck convention. The audience judged a costume contest: dozens of odd fellows dressed as their favorite Rocky characters. Everyone had a ball. Richard O'Brien, dressed for the occasion in a cunning black tube top with feather-duster hem, black mesh stockings and a rhinestone choker, set the tone for the evening, and offered a clue to his film's enduring, endearing popularity, when he proclaimed, "It's very hard sometimes to separate fantasy from reality. Let's keep it that way!" Sage advice, in side or outside...
Finding and keeping a good distributor can be crucial. Consider how Schick captured its sizable share of Japan's $200 million safety-razor market. In the early 1960s, Schick and its rival Gillette began selling their razor blades in Japan. Both faced keen competition from Feather, a Japanese manufacturer. Schick decided to retain a prominent local distributor, Hattori. But Gillette blundered by abandoning its local agent after a few years. Japanese retailers viewed Gillette's move as arrogant, and the firm was unable to sell its products on its own. Says Jay Gwynne, president of the consumer health-products division...
...Physical Review Letters, is an extremely weak repulsive force that acts between objects no more than about 600 feet apart and varies in strength from element to element. It is strongest in iron and weakest in hydrogen. Thus, the physicists contend, if an iron ball and, say, a feather were released simultaneously in a vacuum, the iron's repulsive hypercharge would act more strongly than the feather's to counteract the earth's gravity--and the feather would hit first...
...While the Arts Medal adds just one more feather to a cap that is already laden with honors, “it’s a very significant award for me,” Kumin says. “I am very humbled by it—especially by the company I now share.” Kumin joins the ranks of such past recipients as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, Jack Lemmon ’47, and John Updike ’54. Sixty-two years after a cocky English Department instructor told Kumin...
...other dancers wore regalia of buckskin or cloth in vibrant colors, decorated with fringe and occasionally with large feather bustles on their backs...