Word: latour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...books--and now of its music CDs, videos and gifts. The company has spent heavily to establish a brand name and reputation from scratch, with no brick-and-mortar stores to springboard its efforts. "Brand name is critically important to retailing, and Amazon paid dearly for it," notes Marie LaTour Kadison, senior analyst at Forrester. "They knew it was imperative [to establish a brand identity] before companies like Barnes & Noble and Borders came online...
...needed "a change of perspective" and so joined the insurance industry. "I never realized how out of control the claims are," pens Ramon, "especially for patients who are going to die anyway." Ramon adds that he recently returned from a medical conference where he encountered RALPH FINEGOLD, BOB LATOUR and SHEILA GROENING, plastic surgeons all. Sheila had done Ralph's hair transplants, apparently with great success: Ramon reports that Ralph spent the entire weekend surrounded by would-be Mrs. Finegolds. Lucky dog! The whole thing was pretty ironic since years ago, Ralph had done Sheila's breast reduction to similar...
...Wharton, which is awfully grandiose for someone who churns out sentences like "Welcome to the age of Un-Innocence. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember." But despite hokey prose, she is valuable as an arch and knowing observer of her Chateau Latour-imbibing universe. She mostly avoids the temptation to lay it on too thick, never making her "characters" more absurd than they prove themselves to be. Mercifully too, she has the good sense never to venture beyond her demographic. Reporting on the world of size-10 women and the actuaries...
...only an American one. As a young man, he worked with Gustave Courbet. He knew, and was respected by, some of the finest artists in Paris: Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet. He appears (with Baudelaire, Manet and other French luminaries) in Henri Fantin-Latour's group portrait of the rising art stars of 1864, Homage to Delacroix. "This American is a great artist, and the only one of whom America can be justly proud," said Camille Pissarro. And Marcel Proust turned part of his name, unpronounceable by the French, into an anagram: he became the painter Elstir in A la Recherche...
...read Proust in French and can hold forth knowledgeably on the merits of a bottle of Chateau Latour, Breyer is the son of a San Francisco lawyer. With his mother's encouragement, he attended Stanford University instead of Harvard, where she was afraid he would lose himself in books. Before going on to Harvard Law School, he spent two years at Oxford. His ! enduring affection for things British is evident in everything from his tailoring to the trace of a British accent that sometimes inflects his speech to his wife Joanna, a clinical psychologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...