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...retail Godzilla to perform that delicate merchandising dance, Macy's must use its marketing skill and purchasing muscle to manage a distinctive yet reasonably priced line of products and sell it in stores that, well, aren't exactly famous for their excitement. "It's easy to put names on all those doors," says consultant Wendy Leibmann of WSL Strategic Retail. "But the big challenge is to create a compelling retail environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Department-Store Superstar | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

What do you make of the gulf between movies that perform well commercially and those that win awards? It's the difference between what a group of people find admirable and what a bulk of people find useful for entertainment. I don't have any problem with entertainment for entertainment's sake. It's been paying my bills for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 13, 2006 | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...significant English-speaking market in the world to be ignored by nearly everybody else, India is suddenly the flavor of the new century. Vogue will launch an Indian edition next year. Every rock act of note plays Bangalore: the Rolling Stones were here three years ago and U2 will perform in the autumn. Chanel spent several hundred thousand dollars on a single evening's festivities to announce its entry into India, and Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Gucci and the others are on their way. Nor is the traffic one-way. Indian companies are now expanding abroad. The Tata Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do So Many of India's Stars Live Abroad? | 2/4/2006 | See Source »

...opens his newest album, “Goulash,” with an electrifying adaptation of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir,” then launches into Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s Romanian folk dances. Haimovitz will perform Friday at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre with special guest UCCELLO, an ensemble he formed with three of his cello students at McGill University. Eclecticism defines Haimovitz’s career. He had an early start: at 14 he soloed with the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Without informing...

Author: By Anna F. Bonnell-freidin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cellist Haimovitz Plays Bartok, Zep | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...member steel band that was formed in the 1940s, and has won Panorama 10 times since the competition's inception. "The musical arrangements are very intricate," he says. "Every player has been practicing this tune for up to eight weeks. Just to get on that stage to perform it to all those people, you're totally into the music and transported." It's definitely one of the most ecstatic-and sweatiest-musical gigs I've ever been to. The competition kicks off at 11 a.m. and lasts until sometime around midnight. tel: (1-868) 623-4486/6831; www. pantrinbago.co.tt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sheer Pandemonium | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

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