Search Details

Word: quickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...genre has a quicker sell-by date than self-important melodrama of the elevated sort. And despite the heist films and the ostentatiously life-hugging Never on Sunday, Dassin's main mood was serioso in his films with Mercouri. "Together," writes David Thomson in A Biographical Dictionary of Film, "they made some of the most entertaining bad films of the sixties and seventies: pictures that outstrip their own deficiencies and end up being riotously enjoyable as one waits to see how far pretentiousness will stretch. In good company, and a little drunk, He Who Must Die, Phaedra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Heist | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

...economy closes in on a possible recession, the end of customer service will only help it slide further into one [March 24]. While shopping might become quicker and more convenient, what about the jobs that will be lost? Companies will make more money without needing to pay as many employees, but will that really make the world better? I'm no economist, but I feel it'll just make the rich richer and put more people out of work. Jeff Richmond, MONROVIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Please Help Yourself | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

Please Help Yourself As the U.S. economy closes in on a possible recession, the end of customer service - one of the 10 ideas you said are changing the world - will only help it slide into one [March 24]. While shopping might become quicker and more convenient, what about the jobs that will be lost? Companies will make more money without needing to pay as many employees, but will that really make the world better? I'm no economist, but I feel it will just make the rich richer. Jeff Richmond, Monrovia, Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...economy closes in on a possible recession, the end of customer service will only help it slide into one [March 24]. While shopping might become quicker and more convenient, what about the jobs that will be lost? Companies will make more money without needing to pay as many employees, but will that really make the world better? I'm no economist, but I feel it will just make the rich richer. Jeff Richmond, MONROVIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

What are your feelings on using film stars instead of supermodels to represent fashion? Alexander Dreussi, Canton, OhioA celebrity can convey a message much quicker and much more clearly than a model. For example, for my menswear line, I'm working with [Grey's Anatomy star] Patrick Dempsey at the moment. The enthusiasm from people is very serious. They look at the campaign with Dempsey as enormous because he represents the kind of man that every woman wants next to her and every man can recognize himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Donatella Versace | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

Previous | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | Next