Word: wooings
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...Shoes. Beyond the salespeople, many stores are using new methods to woo the customer. During the Christmas rush, Bullock's of Los Angeles invites customers to pick up one of two lapel buttons as they enter: a "Browse 'n' poke" one that will warn salespeople away or a "Find 'n' flee" one that will get its bearer immediate service. To get maximum effect from a sale, Detroit's Martin Alpert & Son jewelry store instituted midnight to 3 a.m. hours to accommodate night-shift workers. For favored customers, I. Magnin of San Francisco will dispatch...
...feel, strong. Admittedly, he has made France feel stronger than it has in decades. Only through a loose aggregation of such sovereign nations, he says, can the true Europe come about. Moreover, only by pulling away from the Atlantic Community can Western Europe hope to woo Eastern Europe-a debatable proposition, because it is just possible that the Eastern countries might trust an association including the U.S. more than one in which they would be alone with Germany and France...
Lindsay ran scared all the way-and properly so. In contrast, the Beame team's campaign was a study in machine-made overconfidence. Abe Beame made little effort to woo undecided voters, seemed happy only among people that he knew were on his side. One evening in late October, while Beame was beaming at a $100-a-plate banquet for Democrats (menu: brandy-flavored bisque of Mississippi crawfish, filet mignon perigourdine, string beans saute amandine, bombe glacee Americana, petits fours), John Lindsay's dinner was a gulped ham sandwich between one curbstone speech and the next...
...probably had more immediate impact on the watching crowd than the almost incomprehensible statistics of modern war and calculated terror have today. In the last century, Byron, Shelley, Keats and a whole generation of young poets haunted by romanticism and tuberculosis could be "half in love with easeful Death," wooing it as they would woo a woman. Even before World War I, German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke could still yearn for "the great death" for which a man prepares himself, rather than the "little" death for which he is unprepared...
...another were a twitchy witch named Tarantula (Betsy Gesmer) who moved better than she talked, a sweet young thing named Hollyhock played by Polly Gambrill, a Squire (Susan Levin) who thought she was Marryin' Sam, a Bard (Sue Harmon) who could sing, and a rock singer (and composer), Elaine Woo, who moved better than she sang...