Word: upmarket
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argot of anime (rhymes with Connie Mae) can sound as inscrutable as, say, Japanese to a guy in Joliet, Ill. But the only two words you need to know are anime, the Japanese animated films that are made for theaters, TV and home video; and manga, the graphic novels (upmarket comic books) on which most anime films are based. Together they dominate Japan's narrative media. Manga account for a third of all books published there, anime for about half the tickets sold to movies...
...Summers is not the only European sex chain with international ambitions. Germany's Beate Uhse--which also takes an upmarket, Main Street approach to marketing erotic paraphernalia--stunned local financial markets in May when its initial public offering of 8.4 million shares was 63 times oversubscribed. It is now one of Germany's hottest stocks, trading in the $19 range. Beate Uhse is likewise expanding operations elsewhere in Europe and beyond. In September the company acquired a chain of 44 "erotic discount centers," plus a Dutch mail-order company that offers a full range of sex toys, videos and publications...
SHOPPING: Upmarket Men's tailors line Savile Row; the most fashionable stores have a branch on nearby Bond Street. More reasonably priced, countryside togs can be found at Hardy Brothers on Pall Mall...
...clients who want to sue God, Ally McBeal probably doesn't have time to watch some of the new woman-themed TV programming that has arisen in her wake. And perhaps that's really best; for if she did have a look, Ally might see her dream of upmarket long-term love crumble like so much poorly packed wedding china. Indeed, what Ally would discover is that life with a good-looking professional and a Sub-Zero fridge doesn't add up to much, that happiness might be easier to come by if she returned to wherever she came from...
General Motors is also sticking its corporate toes back in the water. Last year the automaker had to halt construction of a plant in Thailand that was to produce a sort of upmarket Opel, mostly for export to other Asian countries. "Frankly, the market disappeared for that car," says chairman John Smith. But now GM is reviving--though also downsizing--its plans. Instead of 100,000 midsize cars a year, it intends to produce 40,000 seven-seat multipurpose vans annually. GM has also concluded what Smith calls "a strategic agreement" with Japan's Suzuki to "work together...