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...shirt with a crocodile logo on the breast. Lacoste's garment was first marketed in the U.S. in 1951 under the name of a famous English tailor, Jack Izod. The Izod Lacoste shirt quickly became an American standard. In 1972 Lauren introduced a version featuring his own polo-player motif. Polo/Ralph Lauren claims to sell about 4 million of the items annually. Izod Lacoste's U.S. manufacturer is not forthcoming with sales figures, but industry analysts say the older shirt is more popular...
...Elizabeth Perkins and the splenetically funny Jim Belushi) to form a profoundly modern relationship. The movie is so intent on ingratiating itself with its audience that it betrays the meaning of its source. One of Mamet's themes--that friends are more possessive than lovers --remains as a vagrant motif. The rest is obscured in the mist of soft- focus cuteness, as yuppie lust conquers all. Welcome to St. Elmo's Fizzle...
Lopez's art is not just about appearance. Its essential subject is time--how to use it, how to slow its passage, how to testify about a fugitive world that changes as he looks. The impressionist view--a motif, or the approximation of one, seen and completed in a few hours--is not for Lopez. His paintings come out of the most patient scrutiny in contemporary art. The panoramic view of downtown Madrid that is the show's centerpiece took eight years to finish, from 1974 to 1982. Muted and austere, almost palpably grimy and smoggy, it sets forth miles...
When Daniel and Monika Crotta decided to spice up their San Diego pizza business in 1983, they settled on a police motif. They decorated the store to look like a precinct house and called it the New York Pizza Department, or NYPD, since Monika got her recipes from an uncle in Manhattan. For orders to go, the Crottas hit on the notion of delivering in two white "squad cars." Daniel cleared the idea with the San Diego police. Says he: "They didn't endorse us, but they didn't discourage...
...trailers at the movies, you know that the only real question facing a potential audience member is whether The Hitcher is a "good" B-rate flick or a "bad" B-rate flick. Another slasher film could have taken the urban legend style, Riders on the Storm hitchiker killer motif and made a palatable product for the sanguinary tastes of the nation's youth. But though its premise is good, The Hitcher fails to deliver, and the audience is tediously dragged over the desert highways of this misdesigned film...