Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days, you don't get 15 minutes of fame, you get maybe 15 seconds. Thirty if you're good. And then -- bang! We're tired of your sorry shtick already. Bring us a younger Debbie Gibson. Fetch us a prettier Julia Roberts. Get us a funnier Denis Leary...
From one man: "You're prettier in real life than you are on TV. You are so beautiful. You're so gentle with people; you're not hard like all the other women...
Armani is only the latest designer to enter a clothing market that is rapidly coming to realize that nobody wants to spend real money on clothes these days. U.S. retail sales are depressed, and Christmas sales will probably be flat -- at best. The picture looks no prettier in Europe. In fashion- conscious Italy, for example, apparel sales are expected to decline 12% in 1991. The one striking exception seems to prove the rule: in the U.S., sales at the Gap, purveyor of $19 cotton turtlenecks and $28.50 sweat pants, are running 30% above last year...
...city, state and regional entities are aggressively seeking new industry, according to Robert Ady, president of PHH Fantus, a corporate relocation firm in Chicago. Armed with generous tax breaks, low-interest loans and job-training subsidies, not to mention four-color brochures boasting cheaper housing, better schools, prettier sunsets and friendlier neighbors, they are pitching their hearts out to major corporations and medium-size manufacturing firms as well. Localities will spend hundreds of millions this year to lure companies away from their established bases, twice as much as they laid out 10 years...
...reassured our reporter. "Oxford is much prettier than Harvard...