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Eating: If you eat breakfast or lunch beforehand, BRUSH YOUR TEETH. Never show up to an interview chewing gum. Never. (Everyone mentioned this little tidbit, so obviously some idiot has done it before...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: Dress for Success | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...Walmarts and the K-marts--that'sour target. If we can get it on the shelf, then itwill sell. But you've got to get it on the shelf.That's our goal; that's our advertising." Yet inthe TV-centric age of satisfying Snickers bars,pleasure-doubling Doublemint gum and rabbit-laidCadbury Cream Eggs, Necco is taking a risk. It'srelying on its long-standing and respectablereputation in the confectionery world to keep theshelves stocked and the candy moving...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: NECCO Philia | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...spoken by Mr. Blonde to a kidnapped cop in Quentin Tarantino's movie Reservoir Dogs, are prelude to a scene of exquisitely choreographed brutality. Mr. Blonde pretends that he is going to shoot the cop in the face to make him writhe in terror, and then, to the bubble-gum-70s sounds of Stealers wheel's "Stuck In The Middle With You," he slices the cop's face with a straight razor, hacks his ear off and then coldly pours gasoline all over him, ignoring his pleas, and light his Zippo before he is blown away by Mr. Orange, lying...

Author: By Charles C. Savage, | Title: A Society Unraveling in Film | 2/11/1995 | See Source »

Youth and inexperience haven't stopped Piotr Sobocinski, the director of photography, from shooting a luscious, substantive film. A few shots stand out as extraordinary. A scene in which Valentine poses for a chewing gum advertisement is ravishing...

Author: By Jonathan Bonanno, | Title: LADY in Red | 12/15/1994 | See Source »

Looking out of the window, this seems true. Two teens with elaborate hairdos and gum-cracking grins joke in Spanish with a Black man. An Asian man and woman disappear into Ryles' Jazz Bar. A lesbian couple chats with the local...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Inman: Diverse, Friendly | 12/14/1994 | See Source »

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