Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Being the very friendly person I am, I walked over to chat. I knew that I too, could intersperse a foreign language with my own and think it was "cool." As I approached them, I noticed that one of them was wearing a "Jurassic Park" t-shirt, another was wearing a Chicago Bulls cap and a third was wearing a pair of New York Yankees sweatpants...
...publications that are thrown back out of the room in disdain. Unless we all keep thinking about the issues and rethinking our biases, and (as Lat says) taking action, we'll find that we've lost the capacity to defend our ideas, and instead become entrenched in superstition. Inie Park...
...dropped hints among all of his friends about the possibility of a film business, suggested the birth of an aerospace industry (Mr. Northrup to O'Malley in their now-famous meeting: "Aerospace? Explain!") and relocated thousands of pesky, non-revenue bearing natives so that he could build a baseball park. And thus was Los Angeles colonized...
...March 1987 Disney opened its first studio store, at California's Glendale Galleria, 30 miles from Disneyland. The store was an immediate hit; and rather than eating into park revenue and attendance, it helped promote them. The company now has stores in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany and Japan. The Champs Elysees Superstore and another in Frankfurt opened late last year. And Disney is planning stand-alone stores on the Warner model in upmarket venues like Michigan Avenue in Chicago and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan...
Sixty years after Disney introduced the Mickey Mouse watch, Eisner & Co. has perfected Walt's theory: everything sells everything else. Disney movies bring customers into the stores, where they are exposed to a promotional blitz of products and wall videos that aim to recycle folks back to the parks and theaters. "This summer," says Eisner, "the stores will be geared to our new animated feature, The Lion King. You can also buy tickets for the park there. You can learn about the Disney Channel. It's all woven together." The Greeks had a word for it: $ynergy...