Word: toniest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wall Street. With her newly launched products and media outlets, Stewart's influence reaches more than 30 million people a week, in addition to the 70 million American households that already shop K Mart yearly. At the discount chain, her matelasse covers, an item usually found at the toniest boutiques, are starting to sell like garden hoses, which is just what K Mart needs to bring in the sales. "We have a million ideas that they can benefit from," Stewart says. But even she can't do everything. "That's their challenge, to make the rest of their store...
...could summarize the studios' elevated intentions in one word: Hamlet. The whole thing--four hours of Elizabethan English, courtesy of Kenneth Branagh. It's the toniest offering in a bag of very worthy holiday films. And still we hear America saying, "Anyone for pigging out in front of the bowl games...
...Fringe, "Direct-to-video movies are made by people who once made--or, in the case of the younger generation, would have made--theatrical features." But that thrill is evaporating. "There's so much crap in the marketplace," complains Greg Brown, a Stanford grad who directed the toniest of the DTV erotomovies (Animal Instincts, Body of Influence) under the name Gregory Hippolyte. And where does he go for artistic challenges? Into porno. "With triple-X," he says, "I can explore video imaging, different film stocks and all sorts of weird underground stuff as long as I have the obligatory pornography...
...Quality Merchandise label is stamped all over Germinal. Gerard Depardieu, who heads the film's huge cast, is the one French actor with worldwide heft and clout. Director Claude Berri is among France's toniest auteurs and producers. Now he and Gerard Brach have adapted Emile Zola's sprawling indictment of a novel. The result is dispiriting: a minor work on a huge canvas...
...success of the sale came as no surprise, for sports collectibles are breaking records, often commanding prices double and triple their catalog estimates. Such is the money to be made that Sotheby's and Christie's, the world's toniest auction houses, are now selling sports memorabilia, although this attracts a clientele that mixes poorly with the typical Givenchy-clad Sotheby's or Christie's customer; the slovenly, middle-aged male attendees at the Leland's sale wore team caps and shouted out their bids...