Word: disappear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without their perfumes, many of the top French fashion names would simply disappear. Robert Ricci, head of the Nina Ricci firm, openly concedes that his firm could not exist without its worldwide perfume sales. Says he: "It is very difficult to make money out of clothes, and impossible out of haute couture. "High sales volume cannot be achieved with clothes, since no one style can ever have really broad appeal. Perfumes, by contrast, are bought everywhere, in all seasons and by all kinds of people, from secretaries to socialites. L'Air du Temps and other fragrances account...
...most expensive Hollywood farce ever made. Certainly money has its uses in movies, but in a comedy? A key element of humor is surprise; jokes are funniest when they sneak up on the audience out of nowhere. In big-budget film making, the opportunities for comic am bush quickly disappear. Every joke announces itself in deafening stereo sound. Every pratfall is as momentous as Cecil B. DeMille's parting of the, Red Sea. Punch lines cannot be thrown away, but are instead hurled like thunderbolts...
...though you have no talent"), within the milieu of his time. Dunlop writes with warm understanding of Degas's paintings, discussing them without jargon; and his plain, elegantly turned prose does much to catch the "mysterious and fugitive beauty to many of his pictures which is apt to disappear under the scholarly microscope...
Several speakers at the rally said the oil and gas supplies from the Bank will not disappear and can be exploited later when better safeguards for oil spills are available...
Then he saw three black dots forming a curious triangle. After several strides, however, the dots did not disappear. They resolved themselves into a pair of jet-black eyes and a glistening nose. Polar bear...