Word: generics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowadays the company's licensees bring to Polo/Ralph Lauren an expertise in making a particular generic item, to which Lauren adds his design, packaging and promotional ideas. His 38 manufacturers produce virtually everything but Lauren's top-of-the-line Polo menswear. The largest licensee is Cosmair, for fragrances, followed by Bidermann Industries, for womenswear. Lauren retains a final say, which he zealously exercises, over the end products. Recalls Clothing Executive George Ackerman, whose company, Warnaco, makes some of Lauren's moderately priced Chaps menswear: "A few years ago we did a safari jacket with copper snaps. Ralph loved...
...Although Gabiel's scratchy voice is perfectly at home singing funky love songs like "That Voice Again" and "In Your Eyes," his conception of what makes a good love song remains hazy and mired in cliches. These two tunes feature overly generalized and hence pointless lyrics set to often generic synth harmonies. Although Gabriel is capable of invading the mind of a political assassin, as he proved on the earlier "Family Snapshot," he seems absolutely at a loss to express anything interesting in his more amorous pieces. And his attempt at satirizing the pursuit of success, "Big Time," seems strikingly...
...which he managed in both small and large ways (they still serve corn bread on spaceships, and Aliens' voyagers do not like it any better than the Alien crew did). At the same time, Cameron and Hurd, who had by now become partners, had to find ways of bursting generic bonds...
...told, there is not a designer on the American scene now who can match Armani's bold finesse, never mind the inventiveness of Issey Miyake, the deluxe grace of Yves Saint Laurent or Karl Lagerfeld, the Zen funkiness of Yohji Yamamoto. The best American design tends to be generic, not designer labeled. It would be hard to find, for instance, a designer who has been influenced by Louis Dell'Olio, but it would be equally impossible to find an Italian leather blouson that is not derived in some way from the rumble-ready splendor of an American black leather motorcycle...
...mainstream musical, some of his revered standards, notably Oklahoma! and South Pacific, were seen the way Sondheim's work often is now, as daringly unromantic and political. Where Sondheim genuinely differs from the past is in his effort to avoid writing pop ditties so catchy and lyrics so generic that they are instantly detachable from the show in which they appear: perhaps his only universally known song is Send In the Clowns, from 1973's A Little Night Music. He studied with the experimental composer Milton Babbitt and still prefers listening to serious work in the classical vein. Sondheim...