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Though the Agnellis pocketed a $475 million profit for their controlling stake in Perrier, the family's hopes of making a splash in the lucrative mineral-water market were thwarted. Overall sales for waters such as Perrier and Evian, the worldwide leaders in the mineral and still-water categories respectively, are growing almost 10% annually -- faster than any other product in the food-and-drink industry...
Although Leger is a contemporary of the famous Jackson Pollack, who transfers nature onto the canvas through the spontaneous splash of paint, he utilizes a more controlled approach. Leger transforms nature, in this case, the flower, onto the canvas by means of dynamic contour manipulation...
Although star casting seems an instant boon, drawing in new and younger audiences and allowing more plays to have larger-scale life, some theater leaders fret that they may be doing themselves long-term harm, creating a costly or even unsustainable expectation that every show will have a splash of celebrity. Says Emanuel Azenberg, who produces Neil Simon's work: "The real problems the theater has are not solved by a momentary sense of breath that the stars bring us." Instead of thinking about how to cut costs and reach a broader audience, producers who employ stars typically have...
Implants filled with saline are less popular than those filled with silicone gel because they have a less satisfactory shape and consistency, a "splash and ripple effect" and a tendency to break after implantation...
Four years later, dragging the judges and the sport behind them, they exemplify a bold, contemporary approach to ice dancing. While the two top couples from the former Soviet Union favor exacting, classical lines, Isabelle likens the Duchesnays' effect to "picking up a pail of paint and going splash, splash." The appeal of the two styles is strikingly different. "One is a Picasso, the other a Renoir," says Isabelle. These days a jarring number of other competitors also want to be Picasso...