Word: jim
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...knowing the right goods has returned. "There are perhaps four or five people in specialty retail who can, at a very high success rate, stand in a room of clothes and say, 'I like that--buy 10 of that. I like that--buy 10,000 of those,'" says Jim Coulter, the founding partner at Texas Pacific who recruited Drexler. Or, as J. Crew president Jeffrey Pfeifle says, "It's like allocating a portfolio--and Mickey is a great investor...
Most successful comedians play variations of the same character in variations of the same movie. As a result, they eventually broadcast their resentment for the audiences that make them successful, � la Chevy Chase, or, like Jim Carrey, renounce them in pursuit of broader horizons. Ferrell not only doesn't chafe under the demands of popular taste--"I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot," he says--he has reduced movie stardom to a series of unpretentious, unthinking decisions. "Will's stand is, If it's good and it makes us laugh, I'm doing it," says...
...native Aussie’s new film, “Premonition,” finds him in a surprisingly tame role. MIDDLE OF THE ROAD Although “Premonition” is meant to be a psychological thriller, McMahon’s character—Jim Hanson—is anything but a thriller of a man. A caring husband and loving father of two charming daughters, Jim embodies—as McMahon describes in a phone interview with the Crimson—a “middle-American mainstream lifestyle.” “Premonition?...
...Carle Stenmark to get the shots that we wanted and get a lot more opportunities,” Mahler said. “And that’s a positive.”Mahler’s explosive effort was not enough to overcome UMass sophomore attackman Jim Connolly’s performance, though, as the Minutemen’s only returning offensive starter ripped a career-high five goals.The Crimson began the afternoon by scoring the first two goals—Mahler sprinted past his defender for an unassisted goal following Stenmark’s fast-break score...
...Though the days have passed when black people were legally considered three-fifths of a person, prejudice is far from absent in contemporary society. Though black people may not be enslaved or living under the suffocating pressure of Jim Crow, we are still gasping for air under the weight of the legacy of systematic injustice in this country. The gloomy economic state of many black communities across the country is one of the most indicative illustrations of this fact...