Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sampling devices may lack human warmth, but they never tire. Says Nabisco's Allan Falvey: "Most sampling programs last a couple of days and reach only 15% of a store's customers. These machines are in a store 24 hours a day." Nabisco says that when new products have been promoted by Samplers, sales doubled within a month...
CHOPIN: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 & 2 (Sony Classical). Ably accompanied by Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic, Murray Perahia shows a pianistic warmth, incisive brilliance and mastery of these pieces unrivaled since Rubinstein's heyday...
...Reagan comparison applies to Feinstein's daunting skill as a speechmaker, especially on TV, which dominates electoral politics in California. Van de Kamp himself grudgingly acknowledges that "she is telegenic, speaks extremely well and conveys warmth." Feinstein learned much of her technique -- especially cadence and syncopation -- from a number of preachers in the black churches she often visits. Concludes state assembly speaker Willie Brown, who has known her for 30 years: "Dianne is as good a communicator as Ronald Reagan -- without the Chamber of Commerce jokes." To Feinstein, in fact, public performance is not a sideshow but something that cuts...
...mediocre oils are included in the show, testament more to his sense of composition than his skill with a brush. Influenced by the supple lines and Asian touches of the art nouveau movement, he did better with fabric and furniture. As an interior decorator, he brought exotic warmth to the drafty drawing rooms of Vanderbilts and Mellons. He added Moorish spice to Mark Twain's study, and in the 1880s swathed the public rooms of the Chester A. Arthur White House with such exuberance that one critic compared the ambiance to "steamboats and barrooms." (Theodore Roosevelt later restored colonial austerity...
...arrival of spring on a college campus should mean a celebration. It should mean a time to forget about the lonely winter and bask in the warmth of the sun. It should be a time to forget that we made a stupid mistake by not choosing Stanford or Duke or any other university that would have saved us from the horror of New England winters, a time to frolic in the good weather while...