Word: strikingness
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“I smell banjo,” Béla Fleck says to his camera crew in his new documentary, “Throw Down Your Heart.” The banjo virtuoso showed clips from the film last Thursday at the New College Theatre as part of...
These consumers are the bright spot in the $2.9 billion high-end-fragrance industry, whose sales declined slightly in 2007. Niche perfumes were only 9% of that market, but their sales have risen 60% since 2005, says Karen Grant of market-research firm NPD--especially striking since most niche brands...
As the winter approached, Chipotle kept pushing back its opening. After the pledge of opening in early December, Chipotle delayed until January, then February. “Okay,” I thought. “At least I’ll have my veggie fajita burritos for all of...
Personality-based television is all the rage these days, and for good reason. The kind of high-concept, high-execution shows that make the airwaves in the new cable order are often just a little too unrealistic to float. The blanket solution of more than a few programs has been...
The article notes that there is a considerable discrepancy between the number of entering freshmen who declare the intention to enroll in the life sciences and the number of students who actually do so. This striking pattern of high-school-to-college-major science attrition is a well-documented educational...