Word: stylishness
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...promising to write novels describing it. They were deterred, he recalled, by the realization that such novels would be so depressing that no one would read them and that the authors wouldn't be able to finish them anyway. Fortunately, though, Doubting Thomas by Robert Reeves '73 is a stylish exception to such a potential parade of academia's angst...
Reeboks come from the unfashionable town of Bolton, England, in depressed Lancashire. The shoe's manufacturer came into the U.S. market in 1979, and its products were first picked up by aerobic dancers. They and others especially liked models with a stylish, light leather exterior. The company also promoted Reeboks as a favorite of the dedicated athlete, an image bolstered when Steve Jones, who set a world record in Chicago's America's Marathon, was photographed in a pair of Reeboks. Last year total U.S. sales reached $65 million, up from $3.5 million three years ago. The overall market...
...removal of trade barriers should benefit American consumers. Gottex, an Israeli firm whose stylish swimwear ranges from $70 to $250, said that once the 32% duty that it now pays is lifted, its fashion-minded U.S. customers will see lower prices...
...read some of that sappy stuff about him in the morning papers--how he liked Western pop music and so on. Now we're hearing about how Mikhail Gorbachev has good eye contact and a firm handshake and a good sense of humor and how his wife wears stylish shoes. Just because Gorbachev uses charm does not mean he is going to be swayed by it. And as for this facade about a modern, Western- style technocrat--it's just that, a facade...
Most impressive is Carreras, a stylish singer whose suave voice is often heard to better advantage on recordings than in large opera houses. Suppressing his Hispanic accent gamely, if intermittently, to play the American Tony, Carreras lovingly spins out his phrases, making an impassioned romantic aria out of Maria and lending Puccinian fervor to the love duet One Hand, One Heart. Te Kanawa's pure, gleaming voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight...