Word: cornucopia
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Need a job, a date, a shady guy with a truck to cart away your home-renovation debris? The website craigslist.org helps folks in 190 U.S. and foreign cities find almost anything. It's also a cornucopia of classified ads that would never make it into your local paper. Here are a few listings that have appeared in the housing section on Craigslist's Chicago-area site: "Ladies Please Rent from Me," "Requirements: Clean Godly Christian Male" and "African Americans and Arabians tend to clash with me so that won't work...
...thing about the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos is this: you never get time to think. The crush of business leaders, politicians, scientists, thinkers and celebrity do-gooders is so great, the cornucopia of temptations on display so salivating, that you can't quite get your head - which is, in any event, likely to be fogged from the night before - around what you've heard or seen. (Did Brad Pitt really have jet-black hair and sideburns?) So on the last day of Davos I enjoy a little ritual. After lunch, I take myself...
...Indeed, a number are well on their way now, at 8 p.m. Score one for normalcy, as it were.Tonight, released from a solitary existence of research archives and state schools, these academics are having a raucous good time, set loose upon one another. But with the daytime comes a cornucopia of panels spilling over with buzzwords, a spectacle undertaken to justify comfortable existences and expense accounts. Fresh off the plane, I attended a dreadful panel on “Indigenous Women and European Men.” It started with a red-haired Englishwoman who struck a grave face...
DERY: ... but I feel that in discussions like this, there's a phenomenon where technopundits wear Global Business Network blinkers. The democratization of available avenues of possibility is always phrased in market-friendly terms. It's about purchasing power--the cornucopia of options available to those who can stuff their shopping carts and proceed to checkout. How many options were available to those who were marooned in New Orleans? The ragtag who are rotting in what used to be quaintly called the real world, somewhere off-line, are left behind...
...with bulging eyes, a handlebar moustache and full beard. Obviously he is not Han Chinese, and that's what makes figures from the vibrant Tang dynasty so interesting. During this period, trade along the Silk Route was at its height, and foreigners, like this Central Asian carrying a cornucopia-shaped wine vessel, were welcomed and valued at the cosmopolitan capital, Xi'an. When the Tang dynasty disintegrated, the northern Khitan tribe established the Liao dynasty around Beijing. It is represented here by two extraordinary gilded funeral masks - you can tell which one is the woman by her headgear and earring...