Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These price-cutting binges are a sign not of desperation but of acutely smart merchandising. Though Sharon is an old steel town, with a population of just 19,057 in a county with an unemployment rate of 13%, Reyers has grown to become one of the largest independent shoe stores in the U.S. It draws 1,000 to 3,000 customers a day, some coming from Pittsburgh and Cleveland, 75 miles away. This year, its 99th, it will record annual sales of $6 million to $8 million (vs. $355,000 for the average shoe retailer...
...smart family matures in true harmony, Ozzie and Harriet and David and Ricky aside. How dull it would be anyway. Nonetheless, to pull off such a celebration with any degree of grace-to say nothing of respect for the 80-year-old-differences, deeply divisive differences, would have to be set aside for the duration. No one had put a voice to this consideration, yet everyone had thought it through. The insect-humming Pennsylvania countryside would not become an arena. At least this once, one could hold one's tongue...
...been. In D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915), the major Negro roles were played by whites in blackface. Hollywood's first black star, Stepin Fetchit, fitted the stereotype of the slow, sly, shuffling Negro. Meanwhile, the industry mostly ignored Paul Robeson (too strong, too smart, too sexy, too damned uppity) and denied Lena Horne her best potential movie roles, as the mulatto heroines of Pinky and Show Boat, handing the parts instead to Jeanne Crain and Ava Gardner. It was not until the rise to stardom of Sidney Poitier in the 1950s that blacks...
...most insistent on the aesthetic worth and quality of his work. For years he has received international recognition; recently he has been accorded museum shows in Europe and the U.S. Other Japanese designers will get their first official portion of Western respect from New Fashion Japan, a fast, smart and wholly seductive volume. Leonard Keren's sleek text is augmented with graphics that convey the essence of contemporary Japanese clothing design, plus a suggestion of its enterprise and a taste of its excitement...
...course, she gets what she deserves, in an upper-class Washington, well-bred sort of way. The stereotypical WASP ice-week floating through life manipulating all comers, Lavinla does exactly what's expected from her marries well, reproduces, continues to make other people's lives miserable She's smart but so shallow that it's hard to tell if she recognizes the in significance of her own existence. After a while, you realize you've seen it before and, what's more, don't particularly care...