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Some bids for the black market are largely a matter of style. Even before Bill Clinton donned sunglasses and went on The Arsenio Hall Show, Pillsbury put shades on the Doughboy and recast him as homeboy. K Mart, meanwhile, hired a black advertising firm that created an ad campaign around the slogan "Looking Good." In one radio commercial, a woman tells her friend about the store's new fashions. "Girl, I couldn't believe my eyes," she says. "I went out and looked at the store name again. It was K Mart all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Black | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...chain stores like CVS, Bradlees, K Mart, Walgreen's, and Woolworth's have all ceased to sell the water gun in the area...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Super Soaker Squirt Weapon Spurs Boston Controversy | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...shelters and impressed Grimaldi with his sympathy for the alcoholics. He even played his saxophone to break the ice with them. In 1969, when there was racial tension in Hot Springs, during Clinton's visit at his home he organized an integrated jazz group to play in the K Mart parking lot -- though, as he admits now, "we caused more trouble than we cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Forgotten Childhood | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...watch on TV; it means the system is breaking down. "I want to see a paint factory blowing up.I want to see an oil refinery explode. I want to see a tornado hit a church on Sunday. I want to know there's some guy running through the K Mart with an automatic weapon firing at the clerks. I want to see thousands of people in the street killing policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Testing The Limits | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

Employers don't like to use that awkward term fired. While many companies "restructure," National Semiconductor "reshaped" its work force. Digital was gripped by "involuntary methodologies." Bank of America "released resources." Wal-Mart executed "a normal payroll adjustment." Hmmm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: May 11, 1992 | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

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