The rules and rewards of the Points of Focus program in 2002 were spelled out in a glossy catalog distributed by the company.

So obviously, Apple created a giant glossy catalog listing all the great software that was "available".

A few have gone a step further, supplementing Web site shopping with glossy catalogs and toll-free numbers for orders.

Mr. Gottlieb is often credited with turning big, glossy catalogs into an essential part of a major museum exhibition.

It will be a glossy catalog of "clothing, grooming, tech, gear, cars, home, travel and guy stuff."

Luxed up and revamped to appeal to its most affluent customers, the glossy new catalog will arrive at a million households this week.

About half of Owens's business is for stock products - from loving cups to plaques - depicted in its glossy 152-page catalog.

In 1972 he became the first art dealer to publish a glossy catalog that offered many photographs.

And if you're abusing credit cards by ordering stuff out of glossy catalogs from, say, Vermont, you're in for it.

Even better, online shopping seems finally to have achieved parity with the glossy catalogs, gastropornography and all.