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...quick acceptance by offering low-priced (average item: $33), reliable products culled from closeouts and liquidations. The network heavily pushes such items as porcelain music boxes and imitation diamonds called cubic zirconia. But Home Shopping has started a second channel, HSN 2, which offers trendier, more expensive products, probably because that is the lucrative direction its rivals are taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Believe This Price? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

With more choices than the Core curriculum, ArtCarved's catalog offers much more freedom than the average Harvard student can handle. Those who've never quite evolved a personality can now redefine themselves in cubic zirconia. Are you simulated or semiprecious? Seawind or Windswept? Illusion or Allure? Traditional or contemporary original...

Author: By Rich D. Ma, | Title: GET THE RING | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...With more choices than the Core curriculum, ArtCarved's catalog offers much more freedom than the average Harvard student can handle. Those who've never quite evolved a personality can now redefine themselves in cubic zirconia. Are you simulated or semiprecious? Seawind or Windswept? Illusion or Allure? Traditional or contemporary original...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang and Richard D. Ma, S | Title: Groovy Train: Get the Ring | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...bemoan the corruption of the season if you must, but remember: that cubic zirconia ring isn't some needless trinket; it is a corpuscle in the bloodstream of a mighty economic engine. By the way, wouldn't a subscription to a lively, informative Weekly Newsmagazine make a splendid holiday offering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL CHRISTMAS SPIRIT | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

Priceless art not your thing? The Home Shopping Network recently opened the Museum of Modern Shopping in St. Petersburg, Florida, including samples of the top sellers over the past 3 1/2 years. Actress Connie Stevens was surprisingly popular. Another surprise--no cubic zirconia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 23, 1996 | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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