Word: lam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conveniently used the fact of her voter registration to evade trial in her home state. D. had in fact spent several years as a successful fugitive from the law and from country record-keeping in this manner, without ever having to renew her driver's license. Life on the lam is sweet...
...Zhivago (1965). Julie Christie, and lots and lots of snow. True Romance (1993). A CP favorite; check out Gary Oldman as the pimp. Witness (1985). Kelly McGillis. The bathing scene. Gun Crazy (1950). Lovers on the lam; a cult classic. Brief Encounter (1945). Strangers on a train platform. A very British romance. Summertime (1955). David Lean. Katharine Hepburn. Venice. Casablanca (1942). Speaks for itself. Breathless (1959). The Godard original, please. Almost makes you want to be French. Betty Blue (1986). French too; a very very sexy movie. An Affair to Remember (1957). Okay, ladies, it's your day. But come...
Eventually, Lam switched from bronze to stainless steel. She says she still prefers bronze, but stainless steel can be turned into satisfactorily sensuous shapes, and many customers prefer it because it does not need to be polished. Also, designing in steel gave her a much wider choice of manufacturers--honest ones. She chose Wing Sheng, a company in her old hometown, Hong Kong, which owns factories throughout China...
...Still, Lam found that in Europe, "control was hard. You're not the only moneymaker, and the distributors we were working with gravitated to whoever earned the most for them," which mostly meant local firms. Some customers objected to buying cutlery made in China, because they thought the Chinese could not make quality merchandise. Lam switched some of her attention from art to distribution. To bypass the balky distributors, she set up a warehouse in Germany and contacted stores and boutiques directly to persuade them to buy the goods stockpiled there...
...Lam also turned to that old panacea, diversification--both artistic and geographic. Her products these days include furniture, glassware, sculptures and jewelry as well as cutlery and dinnerware. About half of her production comes from U.S. manufacturers; she also has silver objects made in India in addition to the stainless steel in China. Prices are high--anywhere from $80 to $200 for a single place setting of cutlery--but the merchandise sells well in exclusive stores in New York City, Tokyo, London, Rome and Paris. Total sales run to about $2.5 million a year, and Lam also collects fees from...