Word: glides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of Dangerous Liaisons 1960 takes place at a beautiful ski resort where the characters smoothly glide about, manipulating each other in a highly artful fashion. Valmont manages to slyly keep Marianne's glass full of wine at a New Year's Eve party and then uses the excuse of midnight to steal a none-too-chaste kiss. The film makes ample use of symbols in its framing of the shots, particularly those of the food. The characters also find themselves mirrored and foreshadowed by a series of very suggestive paintings...
...Talk about cutthroat competition. Boston-based Gillette, which dominates the $700 million U.S. wet-shaver market with a 65% share, sued Swedish-owned rival Wilkinson Sword last week for claiming in a TV commercial that its new Ultra Glide razor provides the "smoothest, most comfortable shave known to man." No matter that manufacturers have freely boasted for years that their products are the biggest, the best or even the most aromatic. Gillette accused Atlanta- based Wilkinson, which controls 4% of the blade market, of false advertising...
...case centers on the thin strips of lubricating material found on most new razors. Wilkinson claims that a 320-customer survey proves consumers prefer its blue-stripped Ultra Glide razor to Gillette's white-stripped Atra Plus. Not surprisingly, Gillette has conducted its own customer survey, which it says establishes the opposite sentiment. Alas, an issue that once would have been judged at the bathroom sink now seems likely to be decided in court...
Education was a high priority for his parents, both graduates of Howard University. His ability to glide effortlessly between different worlds was enhanced when he began taking the bus from Harlem to the Upper East Side to attend white schools. "When I was young," he says, "making white friends was no problem." At Middlebury he helped pay for his education by joining ROTC...
...escape system was designed to give the astronauts a chance to leave the orbiter quickly in the event of a "benign disaster" after the boosters had fallen away. In such a crisis, the crew would jettison the huge external fuel tank and stabilize the winged orbiter into a downward glide. Then, when the craft descended to an altitude of about 30,000 ft., the astronauts would set off explosive bolts, blowing a newly installed hatch off the ship, and extend the 12-ft. telescoping escape pole, which is positioned to guide them away from the orbiter's wing and tail...