Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Though it draws the biggest promotional splash, the carriage trade is only a small fraction of Neiman-Marcus' business. "We are geared to sell the oilman," says Marcus, "but even more, the oilman's secretary." Still, it is the very special sale that pleases him most. In one working day last week, Marcus came up with the gift for the "man who has everything, including a hangover," and sold a portable oxygen tank. Another customer who wanted "something new" got a watch specially made without numbers (it had only a single black dot). And then, of course...
...candor with which Americans portray their army. The fact that a French producer was authorized to make such a film indicates great liberalism." The film is a 24-minute short titled The Marines, and its producer is François Reichenbach, 38, who made a big New Wave splash last spring with his first full-length movie, the much criticized L'Amérique Insolite (generally translated "unusual"). For his latest effort, a stark study of the Parris Island, S.C., boot camp, Reichenbach last week was unanimously greeted as one of France's most poetic, powerful film makers...
...predicted record profits. But Sylvia has no equal at reducing vital but complex subjects, such as the Federal Reserve System, to manageable size. She is sometimes miles ahead of the competition in spotting trends: she was one of the first to see the business recession of 1958, made a splash by spotting the travail of Miami's resort-hotel business...
...produced in a decade. Shot mostly on Manhattan's Lower East side the picture was photographed, directed and partly written by Morris Engel, a shoestring independent whose 1953 movie, The Little Fugitive, scored a solid commercial success in the U.S., and in France made a cultural splash that helped to kick up the New Wave of creativity in French fiIms (TIME...
...lion from New York and invited the public to his house to look at him, "nine pence, each person." Long before his death, he had an elaborate tomb built on his grounds and enjoyed sitting in it during the heat of the day. But he made his most glorious splash when he had a local artist carve some 40 lifesize wooden figures, including one of himself, which were scattered around his grounds and became the town's most irresistible attraction...