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...months I asked everyone about tanzanite. Industry insiders mentioned a connection with the New York City jeweler Tiffany. Several jewelry manufacturers warned that it was a very fragile stone and difficult to work with. Precious? They're selling it on QVC. A Google search identified the Heart of the Ocean sapphire hurled into the sea in the film Titanic as tanzanite (this is often repeated but apparently false). More serious were references to American jewelers temporarily suspending sales of tanzanite amid charges of links to al-Qaeda financing in 2001 (the U.S. State Department subsequently investigated and found no such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romancing a New Stone | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...collected over the years on his travels to out-of-the-way Italian towns like the one where he apprenticed. So how big can Batali Inc. grow? The chef insists that he won't open a restaurant in an airport or push his cookware on a shopping network like QVC. Yet when I first met him six years ago, Batali said he didn't expect to open a restaurant in Las Vegas, since it would be too far from New York for him to drop in unannounced. Of course, back then you could also see Batali wearing something other than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Mario! | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

EYELASH EXTENSIONS As an on-air style source for Good Day L.A. and a sellout host of Shop Intuition by Jaye Hersh on QVC, she has a few camera-friendly beauty tricks up her sleeve. Eyelash extensions are the latest Beverly Hills beauty obsession. "These make your eyes look done without any effort, and they last for two to three months [with touch-ups every two to three weeks]." $300 for initial treatment and $50-$100 for touch-ups at Twin Magic Lashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Closets | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...Most Lavish Home-Shopping Spree The QVC network's $10.5 billion bid to buy Paramount Communications. Paramount had hoped to merge with TV conglomerate Viacom. But QVC's Barry Diller, who can build grudges into empires, vowed to take over his old studio by wooing or warring. The courts, and finally Paramount's board, agreed to give him the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST SHOW BUSINESS OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...final scene, the narrator stares directly at the audience, walks forward slowly, and stops. Then he sells Scientology like he’s on QVC...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why Not Scientology? | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

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