Word: jive
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...analysts point out that it might have been better to forget that fickle demographic and win back folks who remember the Gap in its heyday. Meanwhile, Pressler missed his chance to remind people in their 20s and 30s how hip the Gap could be. (Remember the thrilling Jump & Jive khaki-campaign holiday spots?) Pressler launched two entirely new brands-- Forth & Towne, a midpriced line aimed at baby boomers, and Piperlime, an online shoe store--instead of working to make the Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic relevant again. Rather than trying to be everything to everyone again, says David Bassuk...
...liked seeing my name in print, even if I didn’t read back over my articles. By the time I became an elected editor, worthy of the Crimson Staff Writer byline, I had already grown slightly sour on the whole experience. I didn’t quite jive with the daily rush of the newsroom, didn’t quite click with the legions of older editors. “Who are these crazy people?” I used to think...
Deciding to go to Harvard is usually a no-brainer, but for Katie E. Fitzgerald ’09, the choice was a little less obvious. Fitzgerald, who spent the last two years in Los Angeles living off a contract with Jive Records, was on her way to becoming a star when she decided to enroll at Harvard instead. But she insists that her decision wasn’t a hard one. “I wasn’t one of those kids who knew they wanted to be on MTV,” she says...
...cute fantasy-parodies. In a TV review show, Sneakin' in the Movies, the streetwise critics give thumbs up only to a sci-fi thriller called Attack of the Street Pimps. A TV commercial for the Black Acting School shows its (white) teachers providing the finer points of jive talking and stud strutting. Bobby stars in a Stallone-style epic, Rambro: First Young Blood, and wins the Best Actor Oscar over Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Townsend knows Bobby fully lives where we all live, in dreams of glory, agony, love -- of life's infinite possibilities. In real life, most...
...Rize and Mad Hot Ballroom in theaters. Of course, any show that presents Bachelorette Trista Sutter as a celebrity is not going to bother too much with terpsichorean authenticity. Did you know that Three Times a Lady was a waltz? That Britney Spears' Toxic was a tango? That the jive was, per the narration, "a fast-paced rock-'n'-roll extravaganza born in the 1920s"? Or had you forgotten there was rock 'n' roll in the 1920s...