Word: libido
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Dunhill, or as it is known since the revamp, Dunhill' (apparently punctuation is key--Burberry used to be Burberry's) was the definition of a brand that had lost its libido. Most people associated the name with smoking, although it divorced the tobacco business 10 years ago. After its parent, Swiss luxury-goods company Richemont, appointed Guy Leymarie to take over the reins, Leymarie hired a designer from Hermes to do the menswear collections and a couple of smart young architects to do a new store. Leymarie also came up with a tag line...
...Dunhill, or as it is known since the revamp, Dunhill' (apparently punctuation is key-Burberry used to be Burberry's) was the definition of a brand that had lost its libido. Most people associated the name with smoking, although it divorced the tobacco business 10 years ago. After its parent, Swiss luxury-goods company Richemont, appointed Guy Leymarie to take over the reins, Leymarie hired a designer from Herm?s to do the menswear collections and a couple of smart young architects to do a new store. Leymarie also came up with a tag line...
Edmund Wilson was thinking about sex. He often did. But in the nineteen sixties, toward the end of his life, his inexhaustible libido was getting exhausted. He confided to his notebook that he was astonished at all the time, intensity, effort, and emotional turmoil he had poured into the business of pursuing and bedding women. For most of his life, Wilson had been a sexually frisky, not to say omnivorous lover. This seemed improbable for a man shaped like a beachball, given to drinking whole fifths of scotch, and capable of astonishing feats of free-lance erudition that made...
...often the news just keeps us artificially awake, overstimulated. Information overload produces attention deficit disorder. Heraclitus said you cannot step into the same river twice - each instant, it becomes a different river. For some time, we have been living in the rapids. Just as Edmund Wilson's libido demanded a lifelong drill of undiscriminating erections (a sexual enactment of J. P. Morgan 's dictum: markets go up, markets go down), so the news demands an exhausting procession of moral arousals and judgments - outrage and sympathy, Diana and John, Bill and Monica. We are all Oprah...
...table. He jumps to his feet and introduces himself, then takes a seat with the ladies, bums a cigarette, orders a drink and spends a half-hour charming the delighted coterie and taking down their phone numbers. When he returns to resume the interview, he mutters, "You know, the libido is a frightening thing." He does not have to add that seduction, on and off the stage, is the actor's stock-in-trade...