Word: shod
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...station last week, astronaut Michael Foale had good reason to smile. Among the two tons of equipment hauled up for a risky orbital repair that his two Russian companions are slated to attempt later this week were replacements for his lost toothbrush, shaving kit and sneakers. Freshly groomed and shod, Foale was nothing if not upbeat when he talked to NASA boss Daniel Goldin, himself under heat for allowing Americans to continue working aboard the 11-year-old Mir. "The safety concerns, I think, are well met," said the 40-year-old British-born astrophysicist, "and I'm not worried...
...jingle, "I'd like to teach the world to sing," killed the product. Meanwhile, a grunge-themed Subaru campaign that told viewers its cars were "like punk rock" fell flat, and Converse was surprised to find that Gen Xers were put off by a spot showing an All Star-shod youth spray-painting his name on a building...
...happy about that turnaround as Nemir Kirdar, 59, the Iraqi-born founder and president of Investcorp, the Arab investment boutique that engineered Gucci's turnaround. Shod in black reptile-skin Gucci loafers, Kirdar sat confidently in his company's New York City office--occupying the entire 37th floor of a Park Avenue high-rise--contemplating Gucci's renaissance. After Investcorp bought the company in the late 1980s, Gucci lost so much money some feared it would go bust. "There was a time," says Kirdar, "when--in the minds of several of our clients as well as some...
Pulp drags you along in its aimless, stream-of-conscious storytelling, a slip-shod version of Catcher in the Rye. Its central character, Jimi Banks, graduates from college and, overburdened with a lost love and a friend's suicide, turns himself into a cheap-thrill escape artist. He seeks to lose himself in foreign countries, foreign liquor, hash and lusting after women...
...appeal has been to a very specific constituency--middle class women on the cusp of professional careers. It's no coincidence that Quindlen's popularity rose at just about the time that professional women in running shoes descended upon the land like comfortably-shod locusts...