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...work and never should the opening band upstage the headliner. But neither the Flaming Lips nor Beck, who passed through the Orpheum Monday night on their joint alt-pop-rock tour, are known for adhering to standards. The Lips emerged in an ecstatic parade of video, smoke, exploding confetti and zebra costumes and indeed, right on time too. Their charge was to warm up the crowd and make way for the Magical Wizard of Rhythm himself. They had to hurry...
...encore, red confetti poured down and giant lips kissed the audience goodbye from the background monitor. Another promising tour had begun. Personally, I felt gratified. Seeing the Rolling Stones live was one of the things I wanted to do before I died. Or rather, before they...
...September that icon of feminine protection, Procter & Gamble's 65-year-old Tampax tampon, will shed its plain white wrapper and reinvent itself as the Tampax Pearl, with an easier-to-use, pearlized applicator decked out in a pastel wrapper that won't turn to confetti at the bottom of a purse. The intended customer, says Tampax spokeswoman Elaine Plummer, is the "joy consumer--the postpone-no-pleasure, spare-no-expense, accomplished, feminine woman who wants her tampon to be more fashion accessory than hygiene product." In other words, the woman who wants designer everything--inside...
...butterscotch walls and open seating area give the room a clean, modern feel; any feng shui expert would marvel at the telescope lens-like smooth geometry of the furniture. Swirly silver light fixtures hang from the ceilings, above a black tiled floor with a green, pink and yellow confetti pattern. On the right is a kitchen, replete with refrigerator, sink, microwave, wood cabinets, a Poland Spring water cooler and a bar-style seating area with funky wood and red fabric stools. In the main lounge area are two couches, some tables, three computers, a circle of swiveling easy chairs...
Harder hit by the attacks were law firms and insurance companies--paper-intensive businesses whose critical documents scattered like confetti. "We lost bound volumes, transaction documents, correspondence files," says Jack Williams, a managing partner at the law firm Thacher, Proffitt & Wood, which lost its offices on floors 38 to 40 at 2 World Trade Center. New scanning technology could mitigate those losses in the future: the latest optical-character-reading scanners, produced by Hewlett-Packard and Canon, can create digital archives of documents, enabling them to be accessed as CD-ROMs. "We've purchased additional scanners since the attacks...