Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble gaining acceptance. Analysts estimate that Bigg's, a Cincinnati hypermarket opened by Euromarche, a French firm, has lost at least $9 million since it was opened three years ago. But the large U.S. chains believe they can make the idea work by selling name-brand goods at paper-thin markups. K mart announced last September that it will form a joint venture with Bruno's, an Alabama-based grocery-store group, to open a national hypermarket chain. Archrival Wal-Mart, meanwhile, hopes to open 50 Hypermart USA stores during the next eight years...
...truth, though, sculpting in glass is exacting, sensitive work. By 6 a.m. Stankard is in his studio, twirling thin rods of colored glass over the gas- oxygen burner, similar to a large welding torch. The centuries-old process is lampworking, so named because the glass was once worked over an oil lamp. "Lampworking was trivialized as a street craft and dismissed as an art form," says Stankard. "I think I've brought it far enough along that in a hundred years people will say, 'Holy smoke, how did he do that?' " As if to puncture such pretensions, he grins...
...gods of the Greeks walked in and out of the lives of ordinary people. The gods would materialize out of thin air. Sometimes they quarreled -- often petty, brainless quarrels -- but the earth shook...
...sport a rude cabbage rose, perhaps on the derriere. He is the one who put middle-aged women into bubble shapes or bustles, often at mid-thigh. That led him to an unintended refutation of the Duchess of Windsor's maxim that one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sometimes his widely copied dresses show more skeleton than flesh, but so ubiquitous are they at galas and cocktail parties in the U.S. that Women's Wear Daily has taken to commenting on "social knees." His influence can now be seen internationally, from a pretty young girl in Tampa wearing...
...Lacroix plans a menswear line in 1990. It is a lucrative market, but Lacroix insists that he is going into it because he himself can never find anything to wear, except perhaps in the U.S., where he goes to Ralph Lauren, Paul Stuart and Brooks Bros. In his reed-thin youth he wore -- guess what? -- his grandfather's suits. "They were well tailored, with beautiful shapes, materials and colors. But then ((sheepish smile)) I grew fatter...