Word: soaps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sunny afternoon in San Francisco's bustling Powell Street shopping district, swarms of spendthrifts bypass the Body Shop, which is empty except for the employees, to browse around Lush, a rival British skin-care boutique located a block away. With cakes of multihued soap piled high in the window, this whimsical cosmetics grocer packages its fresh, handmade lotions in what appear to be pints of ice cream--complete with sell-by dates--and arranges fistfuls of bath salts in produce-like pyramids of color. An overzealous employee is roaming the store, commanding shoppers to sniff the new Honey, I Washed...
...honed our skills in rollouts in other countries," says Wolverton, "places that were less litigious, where there was less red tape." To help kick North America into gear, he gives store employees who meet monthly sales targets a bonus that sometimes matches their salaries, which may explain the soap licker in San Francisco...
...Teen soaps are a natural place to address class because teens know viscerally what adults learn to forget: that it does matter what your parents do, how much money your family has, where you come from. On the WB's One Tree Hill (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) two half brothers by the same father--one raised poor, one privileged--are rivals in their love lives and on the basketball court. It's a decent, if humorless, teen soap in the WB tradition, but TV has a harder time dealing with working-class adults. Fox's Luis (Fridays...
...ARTS TV: Japan's Soap Opera Queen Books: Afghan Exile Looks Back Books: A Bar Girl's Tale...
...ARTS TV: Japan's Soap Opera Queen Books: Afghan Exile Looks Back Books: A Bar Girl's Tale...