Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subtle feminism, though, World is not perfect. Past Bond movies tended, with several notable exceptions, to practice a principle preached on several occasions by Ronald Reagan, a frequent critic of Hollywood's insatiable libido. Said Reagan, "I have always thought it was more suggestive to see a hand reach out and hang a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door." The lesson: Merely suggesting sex is often more effective than showing it onscreen...
...Kennedys' Camelot. Yanked up in voltage and turned garishly hip, Warhol's iconic images of Jackie after J.F.K.'s murder, and his tabloid pictures of cars crashed and suicides, replaced dignity with glitz, marrying starstruck glamour to grisly death. Nothing since has seemed so electric and shallow, so perfect a mirror of what was happening to the state of America's spirit. The soulfulness of Pollock and the other Abstract Expressionists never stood a chance after Warhol--and no radical art movement has ever been bought up so quickly as Pop was by the public...
When our children are babies, we spend hours gazing at their perfect bodies and stroking, admiring and sniffing their fabulously pure skin. We worry endlessly about every rash, scrape and sunburn, never dreaming that one day they might want to pay a guy named Bucky to pierce or tattoo that very skin. Yet increasingly they do. Tattooing and piercing, once the preference of biker chicks and sailors on shore leave, are attracting ever younger recruits. Chances are that someday soon your 12-year-old--the same kid who cried real tears over getting a booster shot at her last annual...
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com describes the perfect online shopping experience as launching your browser and finding on the screen the exact item you want--which you may not have even known you wanted until that very moment. "One product," he says, "with one button. And you click on it, and it is sent to you and improves the quality of your life...
Retailers aren't there yet. That perfect calibration of consumer desire and selling proficiency will require more information--privacy advocates say too much information--about...