Word: impress
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...judge how successful someone is by the car he drives, then Richard Thorne is doing very, very well. Most of the time, for quick trips to meet clients in Philadelphia or Boston, the New York City--based publisher makes the drive in his turbo Porsche. When he wants to impress, as he did last summer when he and his wife attended a party in tony Westchester, he indulges his inner child and pulls out the canary yellow Ferrari. When the mood strikes, he might also tool around Manhattan in a Mercedes E series or the Corvette...
...fall, thinking it would be something different to send to employers. (To view Hampton's video résumé, go to TIME.com. With his brother at the camera, the résumé "took me 45 minutes to film and 30 minutes to edit," says Hampton, 23. But that was enough to impress Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. The public relations firm interviewed him--in person--a short time...
It’s certainly fitting that the proposed new curriculum describes its categories in terms of the meaningless jibber-jabber that can easily turn a section into purgatory. “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding†sounds like the kind of filler one uses to impress a typically disinterested teaching fellow (TF) when one hasn’t done any of the assigned reading. Courses in this category will leave students able to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in the context of a theoretical framework.†This...
...Watanabe of “The Last Samurai†plays Kuribayashi. Watanabe never fails to impress, and in “Letters,†he delivers a powerful performance as the American-trained general whose must constantly prove that his personal and patriotic convictions are one in the same...
...feel like your requisite hoodie and Uggs are getting kind of drab, look to the center of the fashion world for inspiration on how to dress to impress and catch the eye of your hot TF. Check out the MFA’s Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006 to see how it’s done right. Students get a 10% discount at the gift shop, so grab a Dior scarf at entirely reasonable prices while you’re there...