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...prompted grief and shock among the Ramseys' friends and general fears of a predator. After the initial stages of the police investigation, Boulder's communications director Leslie Aaholm assured citizens, "There's no need for concern." This comment raised suspicions, standing out as it did against a background of near total silence about the case by the police...
Find yourself tapping your toes to background tunes while you shop? Don't think retailers haven't noticed. Catering to customers' musical tastes, retailers from Au Bon Pain to Pottery Barn to Polo Ralph Lauren are putting out their own CDs and cassettes. Starbucks' Blending the Blues sold some 50,000 CDs in two months, and five classical recordings for Victoria's Secret have sold more than 1 million copies each. The big buyers are baby boomers turned off by music stores. Maybe Virgin and Tower ought to offer cafe lattes and lingerie...
...step farther, adding monsters and phantasmagoric twists. Burns’ work is best encapsulated in his hilariously disturbing “McSweeney’s” issue title page cover: A silver screen starlet embraces a creature covered in sores while a nuclear mushroom cloud explodes in the background. His work borrows heavily from the pulpy comics of the 1950s but combines the familiar elements with overwhelmingly vivid ink drawings...
...pastel in “Two Dancers Entering the Stage” was “so free, so energetic,” Wolohojian says, contrasting with its velvety, lusher application in “Chanteuse de Café.”Wolohojian also describes how the background of “Chanteuse de Café” creates, for him, a visual representation of sound. The dark backdrop behind the café singer is a “cavern of black space” symbolic of the “deep belly of the singer...
...York, down at Princeton’s old stadium once in the late 90’s, at Penn for the heartbreaker in 2000, even to non-league Fordham one sunny afternoon. Therefore I carry the pride that I entered the Harvard ranks with an uncanny wealth of background knowledge, an unusual steeping in the history and lore of the team, an uncommon disposition to devotion.I thought vainly that they’d fall on their faces. I should have known better. Didn’t we all get in here by near-acing a multiple-choice test?Everyone knew...