Word: label
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home front, where a mother's job has expanded to include managing a packed schedule of child-enhancement activities. In their new book The Mommy Myth, Susan Douglas, a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, and Meredith Michaels, who teaches philosophy at Smith College, label the phenomenon the New Momism. Nowadays, they write, our culture insists that "to be a remotely decent mother, a woman has to devote her entire physical, psychological, emotional, and intellectual being, 24/7, to her children." It's a standard of success that's "impossible to meet," they argue. But that sure doesn...
...players in the better world are new to the field. Liz Claiborne's better label has been around for 28 years and represents approximately one-third of the company's annual business. But the category hadn't seen much change in several years, providing an opportunity for the company to make a splash with some new additions. "We already had four successful labels in the category when we decided to launch two new better lines," says Angela Ahrendts, executive vice president at Liz Claiborne Inc. The company's Intuitions and Realities collections were introduced this month in more than...
When it’s loud enough, Triple R’s gorgeous Friends mix on Kompakt makes me feel like I’m dancing inside a womb. Debussy might’ve fallen head over heels for the German house label, whose artists are masters at coloring texture as well as tone. Like so much new music, it fully engages the physical field, which is exactly why you can’t listen to it the same way you used to be able to enjoy a lyric or a tune—it’s become more...
Mazzoleni thinks the “favorite” label belongs to Colgate, the top seed and regular season champion. “They should be,” he said. “They’ve proven it over the long haul...
...initiative has instantly garnered the “imperialist” label. Egypt’s President Mubarak immediately condemned the American plan, declaring “All peoples by their nature reject whoever tries to impose ideas on them.” One Al-Hayat writer put it even more bluntly, denouncing “the imperial tendency” of “spreading democracy in the Middle East as a way to take over the region.” Nor has the backlash been limited to the Arab world. Our European allies—shockingly?...