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...Katz, who began her career as a buyer at Foley's in Houston and whose second favorite store, she admits, is Target. "I've been a longtime aficionado. I was an early adopter. That's part of who I am too." Sure enough, Katz comes off as the nicest whiz at business school or the smartest, chicest mom at the bake sale. She is chatty about the trials of balancing career and motherhood ("Sometimes the balls are going to fall down") and asks a couple browsing through scarves if they need assistance. "We're very proud to serve this affluent...
...there's something more at the end, and here Leo becomes a problem. Beyond detailing gee-whiz techno fixes, 11th Hour makes the deeper case that to change our ecological destiny we have to change not just how we live but how we buy. Again and again, we're told that Americans need to stop the insanity of relentless consumption, and instead live simpler, smarter and slower. My dwindling bank account and I are all for it, but there's something not quite right about having that message brought to you by someone like DiCaprio. DiCaprio would neither be wildly...
...you’ve ever heard of Jeffrey Blitz, it’s probably in connection with his work as writer and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Spellbound,” the gripping tale of eight spelling whiz kids as they make their way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Since that critically acclaimed debut, Blitz has worked on a new project—the narrative fiction film “Rocket Science,” opening nationwide...
Taking its place alongsidefirehouse pancakebreakfasts and the Ames straw poll is a new campaign staple: the Trivial Story. The details change--Mitt Romney spends $300 for a makeup artist; John Kerry orders a Philly cheesesteak with provolone instead of "Whiz"; Al Gore wears earth tones on the advice of a consultant. The more trivial the story, the more newsprint and airtime it soaks...
...ANYONE EVER seemed destined for the nickname "the Big Cheese," it was chemist and food researcher Edwin Traisman. In the '50s, Traisman led the team at Kraft Foods that developed sliced cheese and the distinctly American spreadable snack Cheez Whiz. After leaving his post as Kraft's cheese-division director, he invented the freezing method for McDonald's French fries...