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...with his lieutenants moments before he was shot on the adjoining balcony. "There was some discussion of populating Room 306 with figures," Eisterhold recalls but acknowledges that this seemed close to blasphemy. Nevertheless, he defends the decision to re- % create King's last supper (catfish) with a room-service tray and dirty dishes, as well as to leave a copy of the April 4, 1968, Memphis Press- Scimitar open on the bed. "It seemed," Eisterhold argues, "that we had to indicate some evidence of habitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glory and the Glitz | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Rule No. 1: Understand your market. His stores, he says, sell "cheap and tacky products." Rule No. 2: Form clear quality goals. "We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray -- that your butler can serve you drinks on -- all for 4.95 pounds (($8.73)). People say, 'How can you sell this for such a low price?' I say because it is total crap." Rule No. 3: Evaluate how your product stacks up against all the competition. "We even sell a pair of earrings for under 1 pound (($1.76)), which is cheaper than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING Sterling Advice | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...Debra Winger) and an upper-class twit of a friend (Campbell Scott). He lands in Algeria, a hot, arid country where each hotel is more primitive than the last and the transportation, when there is any, is mostly by truck and camel. There are pestilential insects everywhere; the breakfast tray comes with a DDT spray can. When Kit isn't complaining about the heat or the stupidity, she is sleeping with the twit. A local prostitute tries to steal Port's wallet, and a loathsome Englishman filches his passport. What other atrocities can he imagine? Perhaps that he will sweat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tragedy Is Their Destination | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

Anyone who ever slid a tray down a school cafeteria line remembers them well: the lunch ladies. They may be warmhearted, but their food is not always so hot. The Roy Rogers hamburger chain thought it would be a good idea to conjure up that memory with commercials featuring lunch ladies who dish up dismal casseroles to the tune of See You in September. The ads remind students to take advantage of their free time to snack on the company's fast food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Only Kidding, Lunch Ladies! | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...education" is a loose term, and when a high school diploma is not a requirement, the Harvard name does not impress. In the real world, "special skills" does not mean how many languages I speak or if I can integrate calculus equations, but rather if I do arm or tray service and if I can type more than 55 words per minute...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Riding the Reputation | 6/6/1990 | See Source »

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