Word: pick-me-up
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...stores need some sort of pick-me-up. Both designer clothing and the so-called bridge, or cheaper, lines have seen shaky times recently. Many American department stores have been quietly cutting back on the space allocated to their designer boutiques. In a significant move last December, the house of Anne Klein released Richard Tyler, a sharp tailor known for his Hollywood connections, in favor of Patrick Robinson, only 28, who had masterminded Armani's Collezioni line. Robinson's first effort, put together hastily after his appointment, was both safe and dull, but his attitude has to have retailers cheering...
Therein lies the Starbucks mys- tique: There is a sense that what we once gulped down as a pick-me-up has become a metaphysical experience...
...exchange is stoically recalled in Days of Grace, published four months after Ashe died of AIDS contracted from that tainted pick-me-up. If there were lamentations for his added hardship, they are not in the pages of this memoir, which Ashe started writing last June. He had endured greater pressures. "Race has always been my biggest burden," he writes. "Having to live as a minority in America. Even now it continues to feel like an extra weight tied around...
...exceedingly slow -- so slow, in fact, that there is no need for a stoplight on Main Street. On one recent morning, a Gomer Pyle look-alike loafed on a sidewalk outside the post office. Another resident slogged his way to the Pastime Bar for a morning pick...
...fight 24 hours, Japanese businessman?" The satirical question, posed by a commercial jingle now running on Japanese television, has struck a chord in that workaholic society. The mock-martial melody promotes Regain, a caffeine-and-vitamin beverage billed as a pick-me-up for weary workers. Sales of Regain, produced by pharmaceutical giant Sankyo, have jumped sharply since the jingle went on the air last June and became a national craze. The Japanese are dancing to the Regain song at bars and singing it at schools, offices, athletic meets and cultural festivals...