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...bright idea: eliminate the middleman and market directly to an avid public. In malls throughout the U.S. and around the world, the 268 Disney Stores and the 67 owned by Warner sell not just the usual T shirts and gewgaws but the whole corporate cartoon experience, once removed. These outpost embassies for the Magic Kingdom and Warner's more raucous cartoon realm are more than stores: they are fun fairs, playgrounds, date destinations, suburban social centers...
...undergraduate at Harvard had been a member of the Lampoon, the university's satirical periodical. And so he abandoned the frenetic life of a number cruncher for the frenetic life of a magazine editor, spending three years at Spy, the Lampoon's de facto postgraduate outpost, before joining us last year to put his sharp, imaginative wit to work as the founding editor of this publication's Chronicles section...
...rulers have wielded. In China, by far the more important of the two nations, Communism appears to have devolved into a heavily regulated, semi-legal form of capitalism. Only North Korea, whose development program for nuclear weapons makes the news every week, can take the role of menacing outpost of Communism. Still, more nations than the United States would want to have a hand in the quelling of a belligerent nuclear threat...
...used to be that while Las Vegas was unfailingly piquant and over the top, it was sui generis, its own highly peculiar self. Vegas in none of its various phases (ersatz Old West outpost in the 1930s and '40s, gangsters-meet- Hollywood high-life oasis in the '50s and '60s, uncool polyester dump in the '70s and early '80s) was really an accurate prism through which to regard the nation as a whole...
Although the media focused on Williamson County's squeamishness About Apple Computer's human resources policy--a juicy story in a country obsessed with health care--the real scoop was that this desolate prairie outpost had promised Apple $750,000 for choosing the county as the site of a new customer service center...