Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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King Charles I of England had several court painters, not all equally lucky. Anthony van Dyck was the luckiest of all. But how could one envy, say, Richard Gibson? He was not only a miniaturist but a dwarf who at a court banquet had to skip from a pie and walk the length of the table bearing portraits of the King and Queen he had copied after Van Dyck on playing cards. It cannot have been fun to be this small, if distinct, talent, awaiting his cue in a dark pastry coffin. But to be Van Dyck himself? A different...
...matter how troubling the signs, no one expects consumers to skip Christmas and Hanukkah this year. But while they may buy nearly as many presents as last year, they may shop for them in different places. More than a fourth of the people surveyed by Leo Burnett last week said they plan to do much of their Christmas shopping this year in discount stores. Among the well- managed retailers surging ahead of the pack as a result: the Gap, Wal-Mart, Mervyn's, T.J. Maxx, Costco and Crate & Barrel in Chicago, which specializes in moderately priced housewares. Quality retailers expected...
...story seems straight from the pages of a political thriller. During the early days of the cold war, the Italian government, assisted by the CIA, sets up a clandestine paramilitary network designed to resist a communist invasion. Code name: Operation Gladio, as in a gladiator's double-edged sword. Skip ahead to last July, when a Venetian magistrate named Felice Casson, investigating a 1970s car bombing in Peteano, uncovers the network while searching through files at SISMI, the Italian intelligence service. When Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti admits Gladio did exist, a national scandal ensues. Most disturbing are suspicions that renegade...
...WOMEN SKIP BREAKFAST...
...Southern California, the heart of import country, as one of the first launching points. Saturn's goal is to sell 80% of its cars to import buyers. "We're really out to get the guy who's driving the Civic or the Corolla. That's the niche," says Richard (Skip) LeFauve, a former Navy pilot who runs Saturn with quiet self- assurance...