Word: freshened
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...ones on track to be remodeled--have a decidedly more feminine look. The merchandise is less cluttered and more invitingly displayed, some of it on mannequins, fixtures not previously seen in Kohl's. Fitting rooms are larger and more comfortable too. "Both chains have made a tremendous effort to freshen up their stores and their image," says Amanda Nicholson, assistant professor of retail management at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management. "They've relaunched their private labels, reduced merchandise cycle times and introduced new lively and appealing graphics and put them front and center in their stores...
Along with Brutal Bond, Casino Royale offers Hyper Bond, a character more muscular and kinetic than before. So is the movie. It's not easy to freshen up the elaborate action sequences that the franchise more or less invented and that have been imitated in hundreds of movies. But Casino Royale succeeds by taking a modern form of physical activity--parkour, the urban steeplechase in which participants run up stairwells, jump across roofs and slip through transoms that was showcased to exhilarating effect in the French film District B13--and applying it to Bond's pursuit...
...freshen my recollection of Ginzburg and his magazine, I looked at the New York Times obit, published the day after his death. He was lionized as "a taboo-busting editor and publisher, who helped set off the sexual revolution in the 1960s with Eros magazine and was imprisoned for sending it through the United States mail in a case decided by the Supreme Court..." The Times described Eros as "a stunningly designed 'magbook' devoted to eroticism... [It] covered a wide swath of sexuality in history, politics, art and literature. Mr. Ginzburg valued good writing, and his contributors included Nat Hentoff...
Still, there is no proof that horses bred for speed are more injury prone. Are today's Thoroughbreds more fragile? "Absolutely not," says Widener director Dr. Corinne Sweeney. Owners do periodically outcross, bringing in new breeding partners to freshen the gene pool. But that is merely an effort to boost performance, not build a sturdier animal...
...Freston, the new co-president of media giant Viacom, had been chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, whose MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central channels make it the lifeline to the youth market. One of Freston's missions from Viacom boss Sumner Redstone is to freshen the image and, more important, goose the profits of Paramount Pictures, the most geriatric of the Hollywood studios. So when the company's new Mr. Big showed up at the iconic indie-film festival, media types saw it as a signal of revolutionary change...