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Avon knew it was time for the most personal of makeovers. In business for more than a century, the company seemed fusty and passe, a bunch of pesky ladies in sensible shoes pulling samples out of Tupperware. But when Avon decided to present a new face last fall, it didn...
CAPE FEAR The evergreen fashion conundrum: Will it be passe before you pay for it? Last year's shoulder-hugging shrug is as good as donated. This season the cape is back, but not as we knew it: ponchoesque, snug, midriff baring (perfect for that elusive frozen-tummy, toasty-collarbone...
Every decade or so someone, somewhere, proclaims short fiction irrelevant and passe. In his introduction to The Best American Short Stories of the Century, out last spring, John Updike lamented the diminished importance of the genre during his lifetime, adding later, in an interview with Amazon.com that Americans turn to...
I was just done with seventh grade, and had returned to my birthplace of New York City after a year's life in Texas. I visited a friend, and he showed me his CD player. It was a gray, futuristic affair that inspired awe (I still grin when I look...
But with everyone from bellhops to biologists following every blip in the Dow on cable-TV channels and financial websites, passive investing is starting to become passe. "Everybody's an expert," grumbles a high-ranking executive at one fund company--a reference to the growing legion of e-traders who...