Word: magic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, the big bad wolf of this fairy tale lurks behind every senior tutor's door. Most students don't have fairy godmothers to spirit them out of Ad Board meetings and "disciplinary probation" is not a magic word...
...black and white. It's drawn with a magic marker. It has a lot of words. It contains few words pertaining to the election, save "Vote for me!" In short, the campaign poster looks crude compared to its flowery and poetic companions...
Drexler worked similar magic at the Gap. Between 1983 and 1986 its sales rose from $480 million to $848 million as the number of stores expanded from 550 to 724. Banana Republic alone grew to 65 stores. The Gap's annual profits ballooned from $21.6 million to $68.1 million. Before its dive, the firm's stock price had risen nearly 2,900% in five years. Said Dean Witter Reynolds Analyst William Tichy before the stock's plunge: "This thing has just defied the law of gravity...
Whatever the explanation for Cosby's magic touch, it seems to work just as well in print as on TV. In Fatherhood, Cosby sympathized with every dad who has ever been pestered by a child for money or got Soap on a Rope as a Father's Day present. Time Flies has the same broad appeal, with wry, wistful comments on every middle-aged trauma from the onset of love handles around the midsection to the embarrassment of searching for glasses that are sitting on top of one's head...
Wondering if they are attracting the best U.S. athletes, tennis people are given to imagining basketball players like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan across the net from West Germany's Boris Becker. But this comfortable fantasy may have lost something since Brazil trimmed David Robinson, Danny Manning and the rest of America's college elite in the Pan Am Games. Some cry, "Whence cometh the next John McEnroe?" But others are pleased to remember that, if only by the accident of his father's army station, he cometh from Germany. McEnroe broke his old record for ugly behavior...