Word: lines
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...will cutbacks address problems at the other end of the spectrum. For much of the past decade, even in the digital segment, Xerox has virtually owned the upper end of the market with its DocuTech line of copiers and high-speed printers--tanklike, six-figure machines that can spit out up to 180 pages a minute and are sold primarily to governments, universities, commercial printers and large corporations. Servicing and supporting those machines has been the company's real cash cow. In the past year, however, Canon, IBM and German printer Heidelberger--which, ironically, purchased its technology from Xerox...
Before his clothing line folded in 1998, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi starred in Unzipped, the documentary that took his high energy to the screen. Now he has moved it to the stage in a half-sung, half-spoken one-man show off-Broadway. Mizrahi's chief subject is his own glorious past, and he walks a fine line between charm and pathos when he brings out his first sewing machine and warbles about his need for attention His voice won't win any Tony Awards, but the show entertains because of the winning fussiness that made him a fashion legend...
According to Jessica Gillooly, author of Before She Gets Her Period, young girls want their mothers to be their main source of information about puberty. They appreciate mothers' stories about their own experiences, and they need to hear the same information again and again. But parents should lose the line about "now you're a woman." A 10-year-old who's wearing a bra and a maxi pad needs to know just the opposite: she's still a child...
...introduction to Sunday Nov. 5's Saturday Night Live's Presidential Bash 2000. Both played to their stereotypes not only on camera but off camera as well. After just one insipid sentence--"Hi, I'm Al Gore, Democratic candidate for President"--Gore began micromanaging. "I thought that line was out," he said. Meanwhile, Bush asked SNL writer Jim Downey to include even more malapropisms. After stumbling over the nonword "ambilavent," Bush turned to the crowd and said, "I don't know why I'm having trouble. That's usually how I say it anyway." And Downey had to talk Bush...
...shoes are sold in Gadzooks' 350-store chain and in scores of boutiques like rockabilly mart Daddy-O's, in Marion, Ind., which stocks saddle shoes next to Sha Sha's iridescent Mary Janes. This spring the company is adding a line of garish golf shoes--sans the hidden pocket, so stylish duffers will still have to store their tees elsewhere...