Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...higher-priced junior sales are now minis, Buyer Ann Freedberg exults, "They look right. The timing is right." At the young women's department of Galeries Lafayette, the big Parisian department store, minis are this season's bestsellers. At Chicago's fashionable boutique Ultimo, customers snap up Norma Kamali's short skirts almost as fast as they can be reordered...
...Disc is the most important innovation from Kodak since the Instamatic cartridge cameras of almost 20 years ago that caused a huge jump in the number of pictures taken by the average snap-shooter. Convinced that it has something to shout about, the company will push a $100 million ad blitz aimed at hitting 95% of the U.S. adult population at least 18 times by next Christmas...
...flash if needed and advances the film while the flash recharges. The focal length is so short -12.5 mm - that everything from 4 ft. to infinity is in focus at all times, eliminating any need for a lens that turns and focuses. Two of the three new models can snap objects only 18 in. away...
...Snap the Jinx...
...eventually picks politics over pugilism, becoming California Senator John Tunney, 47. The Hook. John, now an ex-Senator, is asked to portray his late father in Sting II, the follow-up to the 1973 original, The Sting. It stars Jackie Gleason, 65, and Mac Davis, 40, in the snap-brim, wing-tipped, confidence-man roles created by Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The Cameo. Playing papa in retirement, John's scene calls for him to grin as he is introduced in a crowded fight arena. The Fade-Out. "I climbed into the ring and waved at the screaming crowd...