Word: craving
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Forget the new SUV you crave. Don't even consider that cute leather i-Pod case you saw online. And banish the idea of a splurging for a new barbecue grill, buying an extra pair of blue jeans, or even throwing a copy of Real Simple into your cart at the supermarket checkout. Now think: doesn't a little self-denial sound soothing in this post-holiday letdown? If so, you may be ready for the Compact...
...can’t have multi-faceted personalities and changing moods. After all, the constantly changing profiles might just be a reflection of those less static characteristics. And for the celebrity extremists of our generation, the periodic reinvention of the self may, apart from garnering them the attention they crave, just come as a natural requirement of their “jobs” if they hope to stay relevant and interesting to the prying masses...
...want to spoil the program for any of you smokers out there—but I will offer this: back in 1999, a reporter asked him to explain his technique, and this is what he said: “If you never ate sushi, you cannot crave sushi. The French have an expression, ‘Don’t show your girlfriend a new restaurant because if you do, she will ask you to take her there.’ You only really crave what you have had before.”How weird is that? I don?...
...lead to a proper collaboration, tentatively called Dangerhorse, sometime in December—points in some hopeful new directions, embedding Linkous’s chthonian rawness in a new world of digital ghosts.Ultimately, this album’s cohesive vision might be a disappointment to those fans who crave the completely bizarre. In the sense that “Dreamt…” is exactly what many expected, some will undoubtedly feel that it has fallen short. After all, Linkous crafts imagery beyond the scope of most people’s imaginations—a talent that puts...
...scandal erupted over dummy trades. In 1993 the Chicago Board of Trade, with help from Shiller and Case, readied its own foray but then pulled the plug prelaunch. The nature of houses is an impediment, says Craig Pirrong, professor of finance at the University of Houston, because speculators crave volatility and home prices change slowly--and even within one city, there can be vast differences in values...