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Hundreds of companies marketing clothes and accessories dedicated to the "board-sports" life-style are operating in Velcro Valley. They range from Oakley, the $200 million sunglasses-and-footwear firm housed in a futuristic, $47 million hilltop bunker, to smaller fry like Black Flys, Split and Volcom, crowded into Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach industrial parks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killer Profits In Velcro Valley | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...premiere parties. VCA, one of the four big adult-film companies, has put promotional billboards along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and Vivid has placed ads at the Burbank airport as well as along Sunset. Vivid's actresses also appear in ads for Fresh Jive clothing and Black Flys sunglasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn Goes Mainstream | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...male final club's undergraduate and graduate members last year tentatively approved extending membership to women. But this year, in a vote that included all of its new members, the club rejected the reform. A reactionary lot the new Flys turned out to be. The club's graduate board, of course, set the stage for the turnaround, paving the way for this new vote by postponing a final decision last year...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Fly Flees From Progress | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

...that wall may be made of rubber. Beanpot futility gives the Crimson a lot of bounce. As soon as the slash falls into the loss column, Harvard flys back, as if snapped out of the jaws of a rubber band...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: When Winners Just Can't Win | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

...seconds that stretch and stretch. So he doesn't miss workouts, not ever, though it means spending less time with his family and his girl. And when he's at the gym, he sneers a little inside at those who gossip and horse around when they could be doing flys and bench presses and straight leg raises and squats. By the time he's done, he has to drive home in the right hand lane, at ten miles an hour. "I'm so gone, it's like after sex," he says. "All I have the strength to do is smile...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

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