Word: beaning
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...sell advertising "up front," on the basis of what the networks annually promise will be the greatest season of public entertainment the world has known since the days of Aeschylus, and generally ends up with John Goodman playing a gay guy and trading insults with Orson Bean. Held in tony venues like Radio City Music Hall, the presentations involve elaborate stage presentations, comedy bits and star walk-ons - the aesthetic is somewhere between an awards show and an insurance dealers' regional sales meeting. They're followed by cocktail parties where the networks pimp out their celebs to mingle among laundry...
...Supreme Court, which has ruled that a business must have an in-state physical presence - like a warehouse or a retail store - before a state can require sales tax collections on out-of-state purchases. (That's why when a New Yorker buys from Maine-based L.L. Bean, which doesn't have stores in New York, he or she doesn't pay tax. If, however, they bought from J. Crew, which has many stores in New York, they are taxed.) The other is the tech lobby, which lives in mortal fear of the dizzying array of state-level levies across...
...ladies and gentlemen, when O-Town (Ashley Parker Angel, Erik-Michael Estrada, Trevor Penick, Jacob Underwood and Dan Miller), the boyband of ABC-TV’s “Making the Band” infamy, arrived in Bean-Town, and this city would never be the same. Never before has this historical center of democracy borne witness to a musical outfit so devoid of singing ability, good looks, humility or even charm...
...Guitar” was filled to the brim with 500-year-old guitars and lyres capitulated to a bean-bag chair music video conclusion. Like rock and roll, folk art is approachable and familiar. But a huge exhibit of objects that could be found in someone’s attic represents quite a risk...
Since Monday, customers buying a cup o' joe in Loker Commons have been able to do their part to ensure that coffee bean farmers are getting paid adequately for their labor...