Word: couchful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Marc Jacobs store in New York City. His tiny office is plastered with photographs and magazine clippings of famous clients?Sofia Coppola, Hilary Swank, Winona Ryder. Amid the beautiful clutter, the only discernible piece of furniture is a white leather sofa that looks a lot like a couch you would find in a shrink's office?which is fitting, since Rich is a therapist of sorts. His official title at Marc Jacobs is director of public relations for stores?he decides what to buy for the label's six U.S. shops?but the most important part...
...diversify." All the talk about how teenagers and kids are turning away from television may be true, he says, but "young people will get jobs, get married, buy houses, buy big expensive TV sets and turn into the same people who are watching TV now." In other words, the couch potato is not an endangered species. The difference is merely that the next crop will consume television in different ways. "The Internet generation won't leave their computers behind, but they'll have just as much affinity for TV shows as the current generation," he says...
...with narrative, especially in the number of works with two people. “Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott,” from 1969, shows a couple, close friends of Hockney, in a room furnished with little besides a sumptuous pink sofa. One man, Henry, sits comfortably on the couch at center, illuminated from behind by an open window with a city scene. His partner stands in profile at the painting’s right, symmetric with the unadorned lamp at left, looking anxious. Although their story is not clear from the painting, their positions and expressions imply that there...
...willing to make the case that we have no serious obligations to others when making economic decisions. The fact that multinational corporations feel compelled to at least voice concern for the global implications of their business practices, and the fact that neo-liberal economists do their best to couch their policies in terms of “development” and “poverty reduction,” suggests that the human rights cause has solidly won the battle for public sentiment. Hence, it may seem somewhat pointless to ask whether we have an obligation to be ethical consumers...
...aren’t too good at the logistics of random hookups. One newly initiated member, Barry G. Dreg ’08, left his Friday night hookup without his shoes (an essential item according to Gossip Guy). Dreg was then spotted at 9 a.m. passed out on the couch in the Quincy lobby. To add to the public spectacle, he was rudely awoken by Quincy Resident Dean, Prudence J. Lapman, who asked for his Harvard ID to make sure he wasn’t “just some homeless guy”... ... Tommy’s Pizza miffed...