Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been captured by stories of Jackie Robinson or Satchel Paige, Fernando Valenzuela or Jim Abbott...
...native Californian, Robinson had planned to follow in his father's footsteps and become a doctor, but instead studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. At 28 he found himself heading Anne Klein's collection line. In 1996, after Robinson had served three seasons to mixed reviews, the company closed its high-end business. Jobless at 30, he decided to start his own label that year...
...Robinson has watched his sales double in the past year with the help of self-possessed clients who use their Palm Pilots to keep track of more than pedicure appointments. One such customer is Lisa Simpson, president of Sony Online Entertainment, who explains, "I have to go from meetings where people are wearing shorts and flip-flops to dinners at the Four Seasons. With Patrick, I can shift through these worlds without a hiccup...
Pixie Yates, 33, occupies the opposite but complementary end of the sportswear spectrum from Robinson. If he is dressing innately stylish FORTUNE readers, she has found an audience among the urban women-girls in their 20s and 30s who perhaps might relate to Bridget Jones' Diary more than they would acknowledge. Indeed, Yates' clothes have attracted some of the very celebrities--Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox--who seem affixed in permanent ingenuedom...
Last week this urban Robinson Crusoe, an unemployed comic nicknamed Nasubi (the Japanese word for eggplant), emerged from his Truman Show-like hermitage with the subtlety typical of TV in Japan: he was led into another room, the walls collapsed away and a crowd roared with delight. "You mean, everyone has been watching my naked body all this time?" he asked. In fact, his genitals had been covered by an electronic eggplant...