Word: clunker
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...whatever the outcome, the speculation has turned the spotlight on the luxury children's-wear category in general and more specifically on Bonpoint, which has always asserted the charm of Liberty prints and pin tucks over high-decibel, mini-me ensembles. Bonpoint is less a demonstration of that old clunker "good taste," with its black-or-white dress-code overtones, than of the marvelous French notion of un goût sûr: almost anything can work so long as it's not overdone, the proportions are considered, and it's pulled together with style?along with good shoes ("Properly shod...
...days are shorter, the nights longer. A cold wind blows off the Charles. It’s that time of year when FM stays in, draws a bubble bath, pours a glass of merlot, and indulges our wants and needs. We take the big red clunker (the phone) and an elegant leatherbound notebook (a backup phone) into the bath, run the suds, and kick back with a man. A real man—and no one knows what makes one of those like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53. After all, who better to riff...
...This is a second-rate, hack work," countered Columbia's Edward W. Tayler. "It's clumsy, inept. It's a clunker. It's quite clear to anyone who doesn't have a zinc ear that this is not a poem written by Shakespeare...
...Three years later, Gale's living room is still dominated by an old picture-tube clunker. He routinely stops in Best Buy and Circuit City stores to compare prices, but the model he craves, a 45-in. (114-cm) cutting-edge liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV, has a $7,000 price tag?twice what Gale is willing to spend. "These things are still prohibitively expensive," Gale laments...
Three years later, Gale's living room is still dominated by an old picture-tube clunker. He routinely stops in Best Buy and Circuit City stores to compare prices, but the model he craves, a 45-in. cutting-edge liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV, has a $7,000 price tag--twice what Gale is willing to spend. "These things are still prohibitively expensive," Gale laments...