Word: brickely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pitts outlines the next steps to her guides from Historic Cannelton, Inc. "It needs a roof, and you'll have to repair and remove those later excretions," she says, referring to an unsightly brick addition. "You have to shake the tree a bit. You just have to get as tenacious as the devil and generate publicity that this isn't a dead whale, that it's a useful community building...
...niche between desktop and laptop computers? The folks at Ergo Computing in Peabody, Mass., are hoping it is about as big as a Brick -- the name of the firm's unique portable. The 8.3-lb. Brick ($2,495 to $4,495) is a powerful desktop machine complete with modem and mouse, and enough muscle to store and quickly process the complete records of a small business...
Only about the size of a collegiate dictionary, the Brick is small enough to take home (where it can be plugged into another monitor and keyboard) without transferring files or juggling floppies. Ergo president and Brick designer Tom Spalding, 41, says the machine comes in "boring beige" and in a postmodern granite finish, which he likes a lot better. "We're not a traditional vendor," says Spalding, who previously made millions in hot-tub and stereo- equipment ventures. "It's much more fun doing neat, clever designs...
...Lucien, Genet's lover; see how cute he is! He's now running a garage." Discussing a scene where two prisoners, in separate cells, share forbidden cigarette smoke passed through a straw, White notes, "It's totally improbable; in reality you couldn't put that straw through a brick wall, but it's sexy...
...currently at sea, would be enough to flatten the Kremlin and every building within half a mile if detonated 6,000 ft. over Moscow. Up to two miles from ground zero, all but the toughest structures would be destroyed, and even as far as four miles away, wood and brick buildings would collapse and burst into flames. But that devastation is not sufficient for the Pentagon. U.S. nuclear-attack plans call for raining 120 warheads on Moscow alone -- a level of targeting, says veteran arms expert Peter Zimmerman, that "isn't strategy, it's pathology...