Word: teaser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teaser for the article, as if those stripes and that headline weren't enough of a tease, informs the interested reader that George Clooney most wants to act the part of the "Guy" in a "classic leading-man kind of way." His simple request: "Just let me be the guy here." A real guy, taking the anecdotes Richmond relates as sign-posts, drives a motorcycle and/or a black car with leather interior, alternates between cursing and punching people who "disrespect" him or any of his "boys," does 180s on busy Los Angeles streets during the day. And he does...
...opening of Gattaca, like the rest of the movie, is an eye-teaser: against a backdrop of cool blue-gray, misshapen bits of matter drift like feathers, only to collect in an unidentifiable heap. Meanwhile, the credits appear in fragments: first the letters that make up the movie title--A, T, C and, more rarely, G--followed by the rest of the name. It's then that the significance of those four letters finally dawns upon you: Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine, the four bases that make up our genetic code. A zoom-out to a view of Ethan Hawke...
...feel the heat. Advanta, the nation's ninth largest issuer of plastic, stunned Wall Street last week by forecasting a loss of $20 million in the first quarter. The company relies on a computer model to pick more affluent customers, who are offered a large credit line and teaser rates as low as 5.9%. The result: the number of cardholders jumped from 2 million to 6 million in five years...
...pages), which was co-written with his famously verbose running mate. If the election was decided at the cash register, Dole and Clinton would be also-rans to General Colin Powell, who has achieved the equivalent of a literary landslide (2.6 million copies in print) with his pre-election teaser. And what of that other man of letters, Ross Perot? He's rushing his "me too" autobiography to bookshelves this month...
...really don't care that much about special promotions," says Keith Morris, a spokesman for the largest U.S. retailer. "They want a card with a fixed low-interest rate that won't go up after 60 or 90 days." But Wal-Mart is baiting its hook with a 9.9% teaser rate to encourage holders of other cards to switch. In the war for buy-now-pay-later customers, the battles never...