Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wealthy Indian families. And in France, Napoleon is said to have given one to Josephine, who was so enthralled that she bought 400 more. The West didn't fully embrace shahtooshes until the 1980s, when fur went out and designers began dying the shawls in appealing colors. Before long, Park Avenue hostesses were selling them and Donna Karan was confiding to British Vogue that a shahtoosh was her security blanket. (Both she and Brinkley have since renounced shahtooshes...
...dried fruit, quaffing his latest Odwalla fruit juice--he loves the new twist-off caps--and perusing the timeline like a rabbi studying Talmud, looking up every few minutes with another pressing question: When do the TV ads start? What's this NASCAR thing about? How about theme-park events? Can they schedule a later meeting to review the billboards? Which news-mag show should they be pushing for? Is it possible, if the movie opens big on Thanksgiving--like incredibly, unbelievably big--that Disney might delay the date when they change the Disney Store windows from a Toy Story...
Boasting aside, Pixar does seem to be light-years ahead technologically. Pixar's animation software, RenderMan, created the dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park as well as the battle droids in the latest Star Wars. Jobs spends more than $5 million a year on computer R. and D., and it shows in TS2--in more realistic skin and fur, more flexible characters, more sophisticated lighting and better depth of field...
...early 1970s in Great Falls, Mont. David had moved there first, after college, and was working as a copper smelter. Ted was building his cabin on land the brothers had bought together outside Lincoln. One day, Ted recalls, they took their baseball gloves to a park. "We were as far apart as we could get and still reach each other with the ball," Ted says, smiling, as if lost in the moment. "We were throwing that ball as hard as we could, and as far as we could... And so we were making these running, leaping catches. We made more...
...spearhead the gridiron campaign, only to be outbid by organizers in Houston. This came amid reports that Ovitz, now a manager at his new firm, Artists Management Group, was having trouble interesting Hollywood studios in the rights to the latest manuscript by Michael Crichton. Ovitz recently lured the Jurassic Park author, whose previous novels were turned into big-budget films, to A.M.G. away from C.A.A. The visually oriented town is struggling to ascertain the correct spelling of schadenfreude...