Word: pizzazz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goods. While most Americans have never heard of IKEA, the chain had $1.7 billion in sales last year at 76 stores that stretch from Norway to Australia. Already one of the fastest-growing merchants in Europe, where 51 of its stores are located, IKEA is now successfully bringing its pizzazz and promotion to the U.S. The company put a store in suburban Philadelphia two years ago and followed with the Dale City outlet in 1986. A third branch is scheduled to open in 1988 near Baltimore...
Austerity has tended to lose the fight to pizzazz. Shaker furniture makers eventually abandoned pure folk simplicity; Arts and Crafts yeomanry gave way to florid reproductions. Yet by the 1920s, both modes had been supplanted by a new phenomenon: the cult of the machine. Technology cast its spell over the national imagination, and the idea of the future became palpable...
...climax comes when Norris sets out to save the girl, who is hidden in a huge warehouse swarming with Colombian gangsters. Having alienated his colleagues with his individualism and pizzazz he sets out alone to save the world. That's not quite true. Norris has the help of the Police Prowler a remote control tank that would make Casper Weinberger seethe with jealousy. Even though he clls the Prowler another gun without a brain. Norris aces the machine to wreak havoc on lots of gangsters. It's almost like cheating but he succeeds in killing many, many men, while still...
...make her a viable romantic focus. All smiles, playing with ducks and little children, helping Jason's pregnant wife do her exercises, or just staring, wide-eyed, at Jason, she is about as engaging as a Hallmark card. Although Steenburgen does try, there's no room for the pizzazz of her Oscar-winning portrayal of the long-suffering wife in Melvin and Howard here...