Word: barkely
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...green designer glasses, the ad man's ever-twinkling eyes widen. "And then he'll see a big spread on the lost children of Brazil, which is followed by a double-page photograph for Chanel perfume." Knocking his knuckles once on the table, Toscani, 65, lets out a short bark of a laugh. "Our archaeologist will wonder what the hell was going on back then!" This is the perspective behind his best-known advertisements, which have featured AIDS patients and death-row inmates in marketing campaigns aimed at selling bright wool sweaters and blue jeans. "All I've done...
Dana Perino knows how to elicit a partisan response. In 1998 at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she trained her Hungarian hunting dog, Henry, to bark when asked, "Should Clinton go to jail?" He growls when you say, "Al Gore," and retrieves a flip-flop when you mention John Kerry. To those critics who say the White House press corps has been conditioned to respond meekly to the Bush Administration, such skills might seem to make her a fitting replacement for Tony Snow, who stepped down as White House press secretary on Sept. 14. But after just...
...joins an annual wild-reindeer roundup in Lapland. For his 50th birthday, the chef spent 12 days biking the entire length of Finland, savoring every mile of the journey. His menu is an ode to the land, its traditions and its caretakers, featuring items like bread made from birch-bark flour, and sauna-cured ham from pigs raised for flavor rather than volume. "I try to show people?both Finns and foreigners?that Finnish food is very good food," says Maulavirta. "We need to support small producers and stay close to nature...
There is admittedly a certain irony in redefining as luxury items ingredients formerly associated with subsistence eating or animal feed. It wasn't all that long ago, before the days of Nordic affluence and takeout pizza, that eating tree bark and foraging for edible lawn clippings were reserved for dire necessity or particularly hard times. "For a long time," says Danish restaurant critic and former Slow Food president Bent Christensen, "all we had were pigs, coal, potatoes and the cold. We were not proud of our own kitchen. Not anymore. We want to discover our own good things. Nordic cuisine...
...know that what you're doing is the right thing. If you have a place you want to go and you go there with determination, then that's when you're criticized. It reminds me of a saying we used to have in Wyoming, which is, Dogs don't bark at parked cars...