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Walk into most any Wal-Mart in the U.S. and here are a few of the things you can buy: condoms, birth control pills, hunting rifles, "Western" style toy guns, the movie There's Something About Mary, the National Enquirer, cigarettes, the video game South Park, the hard-rocking Powerman 5000's hit Tonight the Stars Revolt. And here are a few of the things you can't buy: a "day-after" birth control kit, handguns, authentic-looking plastic guns, Playboy, rolling papers, the movie South Park, the video game Grand Theft Auto and any number...
Inconsistent? Absolutely, and deliberately so. "We're a family store," says Wal-Mart CEO David Glass, and "we try to have something for everyone." And just as in real families, there is conflict about who gets what. Last week the company was pinned by a consumer who demanded that a World Wrestling Federation action doll be yanked from the shelves because both the wrestler it depicted, Al Snow, and the doll carry a prop that looks like a woman's severed head...
...latest in a series of controversies in which the company, by virtue of its enormous size and reach, has played an unwanted role as a sort of national conscience, discount division. Wal-Mart has been accused of being both censor and nanny, condemned as a promoter of demon rum and slave labor, and cited as both a friend and a foe of the environment. "We don't want to be America's moral conscience," says Don Soderquist, senior vice chairman. "The watchword for all of our people is 'Do what is right.' That's what we really preach and teach...
...shows are working for TLC--whose daytime, toll-free, direct-response ads have been replaced by commercials from Wal-Mart and Sony. So assuming the more suspenseful Dating continues to perform, can tearful bat mitzvahs and confirmations be far behind? Gingold won't say, but he does drive one point home. "You won't be seeing divorces or funerals. This is happy...
...between a fairy story and a poor joke. People of a religious bent are apt, under such conditions, to see the familiar images of near-death experience--the tunnel of white light with Jesus beckoning at the end, as featured in the memoirs of a score of American K Mart mystics. Jesus must have been busy when my turn came: he didn't show. There was, as far as I could tell, absolutely nothing divine on the other side...