Word: orly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beauty has gone back to basics. In the U.S.'s $16 billion cosmetics industry, you don't need supermodels like Cindy Crawford. You don't need to ply customers with giveaways. And with the advent of the Web and stores like Sephora, you don't need counter space at Saks...
These companies are surviving, and thriving, on word of mouth. Since they can't afford huge advertising spreads in Vogue or prime real estate at big department stores, they vie for the attention of magazine editors, Hollywood stars and other buzzmakers. Drew Barrymore probably did more for Hard Candy's...
It helps that women now shop for cosmetics differently. "Young women loathe department stores--the whole system of waiting at the counter, having to get someone's attention," says Charla Krupp, an editor at Glamour magazine. Today's consumers prefer to grab a lipstick at Victoria's Secret or a...
Or the old Soviet Union: toxic mud and tepid water. But the Red Army went all the way to Berlin in 1945. It blithely crushed revolts in various satellite countries, moved into Cuba, Africa and Afghanistan. Prussia-Germany? In the old days, only the rich could afford real coffee; the...
Now look at the other side. As every Middle East hand knows, Arab (or Turkish) coffee, especially when spiced with cardamom, is among the best in the world. But when did Arabs last win a war? Or the Italians, who have given the world the Gaggia and the macchiato? Indeed...