Word: malling
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Married at the end of her sophomore year at Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va., Gibson worked in various cities while her husband James was building his career in sales. In 1971 she saw her first Limited store in a shopping mall in Columbus. Intrigued by its high-style, affordable fashion approach, she got in touch with Wexner. Says he: "No one had ever called me to talk about my business. She became my assistant with no title and little...
...grass and trees, parkland to be hauled piece by piece into the city and up onto the roof of a six-story, 13-block-long building. Inside that vast, quasi-subterranean space will be 13 acres of TV studios, underground parking for thousands of cars, and an enormous shopping mall. The whole multibillion-dollar shebang, called Television City, must get approval from two separate city boards, a process that could take a year. If Trump is successful, his enclave will be the most ambitious urban project of its kind since Rockefeller Center went up half a century...
...director's film--the leisurely portraiture of an ordinary family--then shockingly reveals a mysterious fable of fear and longing. Connie (Laura Dern) is a coltish California girl trying to cope with her brand-new woman's body and its desperate urgencies. She sasses her angry mom, cruises the mall with her girlfriends and dreams of a boy who will hold her close and sing to her. Enter Arnold Friend (Treat Williams), an older man whose silky threats mesmerize the girl into taking his dare. Arnold is Connie's demon lover, a nightmare image of every male she has ever...
Wall Street investors have greeted the home-shopping concept as if it were the next big bonanza, like personal computers or genetic engineering. "It's TV as another shopping mall," says Stuart Robbins, who follows the retailing industry for Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, the investment firm. When HSN went public last May, its shares skyrocketed from 18 to 42 on the first day, and are now about 118 (after adjustment for a 3-for-l stock split...
...Wynn came up with the idea for the mountain as a way to block the view of the aluminum spaceship-themed entrance to the Fashion Show Mall across the street. "A lot of these guys will hire architects and designers to come up with ideas. Steve is the driving force in all his buildings," says Frank Fertitta III, 43, the CEO of Station Casinos and a longtime friend, one of the group of young Vegas tycoons Wynn calls his "homeboys...