Word: lillian
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...Enter retail. It's certainly not rosy in retail-land: The Sharper Image, Lillian Vernon Crop and Bombay Company have all declared bankruptcy. Ann Taylor announced the phaseout of 117 of its 921 stores over the next three years and Liz Claiborne is shutting down 54 Sigrid Olson shops this year. Talbots streamlined 22 more stores in addition to the 78 it already had announced while also ending Talbots Mens and Talbots Kids. The International Council of Shopping Centers forecasts that store closings could reach 5,770 this year - the highest since...
...character, Sheriff Calder, is attacked by men living in the surrounding town, insisting that the other actors actually hit him. The fight was shot off-time in order to simulate a real beating. Brando also once convinced the director of the existence of an imaginary Native American tribe; playwright Lillian Hellman had coughing fits whenever an actor paraphrased a line; Penn’s advice to John F. Kennedy ’40 in the first live-television presidential debates with Richard M. Nixon was to “use close-ups.” Despite the technical advances that...
...just have a lot of respect for her,” Lillian Yu ’11 said. “She really cared about student issues and she really listened...
...designed by Grace C. Laubacher ’09) consists chiefly of a few red flags, but when coupled with Jessica C. Flores’s immaculate lighting, the simplicity is usually striking. In contrast with the plain white and blacks of the costumes (designed by Lillian Ritchie ’08-’09), the bright red of the flags and the scarves used to represent blood is effectively dramatic...
Growing up with 12 older and much taller brothers, Mary Lillian Ellison wasn't considered the strong one. All that changed nearly 60 years ago, when she took her first step into the ring. At the time, women had a minimal presence in wrestling, but Ellison's signature flying drop-kicks and hair-pulling body slams quickly earned her a loyal fan base. Shortly after she started wrestling, a promoter nicknamed Ellison the "Fabulous Moolah" for her stated ambition in life: money. In 1956, she won the World Women's Championship. Twenty-eight years later she was defeated...