Word: claddings
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...window seat to wait, I looked around the room at Fielding's collected fans. And what I saw changed me - and my bookshelf - forever. There were septuagenarians, teenagers and thirty-somethings. Women who looked like they'd just ducked out of a board meeting for an hour, and sweatshirt-clad women with babies strapped to their chests. There were women who'd brought sheepish-looking boyfriends and women who'd arrived with their mothers. It was, I decided, a pretty impressive display of sisterhood. And everybody there was waiting, unashamed, to meet and applaud Bridget Jones's creator...
...year the boy in the cyberbubble won kudos for leveraging his essentially worthless assets?DigiScents? Network of the World? A phony Stanford degree??into one, very real telco when he paid $29 billion in stock and cash for Hong Kong Telecom. What nobody realized then was that this khaki-clad scion who embodied all the Web concepts people used to act like they believed in?does anyone remember Metcalf's Law??would become the poster child for the New Economy's crash and burn. At PCCW's first announcement of its consolidated earnings last week, the company revealed that...
...leader of the Zapatista rebels rejected a proposal for preliminary talks with selected government legislators, saying he wanted an audience with the entire congress. Subcomandante Marcos and his followers are pressing for constitutional recognition of the country's 10 million indigenous people. Earlier in the week, balaclava-clad Zapatista supporters made a triumphal entrance into the capital city after a 15-day motorcade through Mexico from their base in Chiapas. President Vicente Fox has raised hopes for peace but the Zapatistas say they will not leave Mexico City until a bill of rights is in place...
...only had to play second fiddle to Barbie but also suffered the further indignity of having no genitalia. Ken, named after the son of Mattel founders Ruth and Elliot Handler, celebrated his 40th birthday last week. Mattel marked the occasion by announcing plans to hawk a commemorative tuxedo-clad Ken doll, expected to land in stores in June. Fortieth-anniversary Ken will be sold with a tiny replica of the very first Ken, who wore a red bathing suit with a yellow towel. Over the years, Ken has come in many versions, including soldier Ken, lifeguard Ken, Olympic skater...
...year-old siblings stuck in a permanent childhood. Gowl’s Haley is the first to grab the audience’s attention, shifting back and forth between petty child and fussy matron in a fine schizophrenic act. The production yields no funnier image than the pajama-clad Gowl perched on a plastic-covered easychair like a demented socialite, articulating her concerns about candy distribution...