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...Eastern Europe, she was enthralled by beauty and glamour, and her talent lay in convincing other women she could help them attain it. In the 1930s, with a face cream her uncle, a chemist, brewed up in his kitchen, ESTEE LAUDER traveled tirelessly to local beauty salons, demonstrating the product on women marooned under hair dryers. In 1948, after dogging the store's president, she was granted counter space at Saks Fifth Avenue. When, in the beginning, her advertising budget was meager, she hatched what is now a promotional mainstay in the industry, the "gift with purchase...
...that immense composite list, little time to dwell on the historical particulars and hardships of tracking down footage for a documentary. Yet, in his portrait of Jean Dominique, a Haitian activist unknown to most American ears, Demme takes aim at a slightly obscure topic and turns up a final product that not only serves as a fascinating narrative biography but an excellent debriefing of Haiti’s turbulent political history...
...several unhappy marriages onscreen in Laws of Attraction, a movie about divorce lawyers in love, but none of them have anything to do with cheated-on plaintiffs or weasely defendants. The first is the unfortunate coupling of Julianne Moore with this formulaic froth. The second, the marriage of product placement and movie making. The offspring of that particular happy union is this movie, an extended advertisement for Pepsico, various other snackfood products, and the Ireland tourism board, with some half-hearted cosmetic surgery humor thrown in for good measure...
...previously been grappling with—the suggestion that music can be design and not art. He was referring to techno and dance culture, where quality corresponds on most levels to functionality, how well a track can create physical synergy between artist and audience. Tracks are DJ tools, product rather than artwork; performances are DJ sets, ephemeral rather than everlasting moments. Both signify a global rather than a singular worldview which encapsulates millions of individuals. You don’t embody the music as much as you’re embodied within...
Ultimately, the issue remains complex. But one woman awaiting donated eggs who asked that she not be named said the complexities are overridden by the benefits. “This gives women the opportunity to have a child that is at least partially the genetic product of the couple,” she said. “It also allows some women to experience pregnancy who otherwise couldn?...