Word: gimmicked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Colorization is the gimmick by which a computer and an "art director" team up to apply color to an old black-and-white movie. The colorizers, to their credit, have few pretensions. The idea is to make money. "People don't like black and white," says the president of Colorization Inc. "When we color it, they...
...Advertising Gimmick...
...unusual promotion was designed to attract depositors from outside Harrisburg (pop. 9,332), a depressed coal-mining town. The gimmick worked: the bank has received inquiries from as far away as Australia and the Soviet Union...
...taxes. Says Rita: "On a $14,000 car, we're talking $1,120 in sales tax that we could deduct if we buy a car this year." Many auto dealers in states with high sales taxes plan to start using the last-chance break as a year-end advertising gimmick...
...more attentive than ever. When a New York filmmaker boarded the 9 a.m. shuttle to Washington carrying a half-eaten sandwich, an attendant exclaimed in mock horror, "Don't tell me you brought your own bagel?" Behind her lay rows of orange bags bearing the Eastern shuttle's latest gimmick: snacks...