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...mass marketer, discovered the benefits of targeting when it set up 20 experimental boutiques stocked with caftans made from kente cloth, brimless hats called kufis, carved wooden masks and other items imported from West Africa. After selling out all the merchandise in just three months, the retailer expanded the concept to 100 more stores and will add American-made products with Afrocentric designs. In the entertainment world, art is imitating life: four of the five new comedies debuting on NBC this fall will star black actors...
...marketing campaigns alone aren't always enough to woo black consumers. "Blacks want to see the company involved and contributing," says public relations consultant Myra Bauman. "The concept of a good corporate citizen is important to us." That can mean hiring more black employees, making contributions to black causes, placing ads in the black media, using black suppliers or even naming blacks to the company's board of directors...
...Houston were pummeling moderates who had sought to soften the party's rigid pro-life platform position. The pro-choice faction had been led to believe that they would get at least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business regulation. Donald Devine, one of the many right-wing...
...like shooting a sitting duck/a little talk and a smile and baby I was stuck"). But forget them-Bell does. The high point of the album comes on "Take A Chance on Me," where he leaves the lyrics behind and babbles a blissful "ba ba ba ba." And the concept is hilarious: Erasure is just a latter-day incarnation of ABBA, after all--they're both gooey, disco-ey, selfparodying pop groups. Thus this album is self-parody to the second degree at least. It's a tongue-in-cheek overdose of corn, and it's cool...
...Bush sets more historic goals for himself than re-election. He has declared the U.S. to be the world's only superpower and outlined his concept of a new world order under its aegis. The essence of that order was to be the rule of law and collective action to preserve international security and roll back aggressors, as in Operation Desert Storm...