Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chopped off her arms and left her in a concrete culvert to die. She didn't. The next day, read court records, Vincent was found "wandering nude ... holding up her arms so that the muscles and blood would not fall out." When Singleton, a merchant mariner, was sentenced for the crime, the judge said he wished he could "send him to prison for the rest of his natural life...
...this is straight from the original text, but there are definite Campionesque touches that separate the film from more traditional Merchant-Ivory or "Sense and Sensibility"-style approaches. Hauntingly ethereal music of reed flutes, reminiscent of "The Piano" though written by a different composer, runs throughout the movie. Wildly tilted shots of staircases and courtyards sporadically break up the Renaissance symmetry of Florence. The lush beauty and color of balls and beautiful Italian gardens are interspersed with visually spare scenes enveloped in bluish shadows. The symbolic medium of a glass case or prisonlike bars distorts our view of the characters...
...garments in the U.S. But Guess president Paul Marciano--one of four immigrant French brothers who founded the company in 1981--claims the job exports have nothing to do with the UNITE campaign. In the early 1990s, charging $60 to $70 per pair, Guess was the top designer-jeans merchant. In the past two years, high-end labels such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren--many of them manufactured abroad--moved aggressively into denim, pricing their jeans at $48. Guess sales plunged, and Marciano says he had to cut labor costs. "If you don't stay competitive, they...
...lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster," says Corliss. "But he can't so easily make it poetic. What's lacking in this merchant of culture is Olivier's danger, the preening beauty and sweet delirium that makes an actor a star. Those are precisely the qualities that keep this admirable ?Hamlet? -- and ?Hamlet? -- from being a thrilling...
...Lady, director Jane Campion's version of the Henry James novel, provides steeply raked, hugely self-conscious angles on Isabel, who is often glimpsed in a murky bluish light. It's as if Campion were determined not to shoot a single frame that might be confused with a Merchant-Ivory production...