Word: credenza
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...many 18th century townhomes survive. The area's mostly 19th century factories and warehouses have been transformed into cafés, galleries and shops such as Minima (www.minima.us), where the trove of gorgeous furniture includes Cappellini's must-have lacquered Uni cabinets and an elegant, eco-friendly credenza made from bamboo and cork by local designer Michael Iannone...
...more and more to the computer--rather than the TV, DVD or the video-game console--as their primary form of entertainment," he says. Iger, a longtime technophile, prefers viewing early cuts of his studios' movies and TV shows on the 30-in. cinema-display computer screen on his credenza, not the 50-in. flat-screen television nearby. "The question became, 'What are we as a company going to do about this trend?'" he says. "You can't stand in the way of the consumer juggernaut that technological advances have created because, if you try, you'll lose...
...which has Republicans more worried than they have been in a dozen years. His traditional summer sojourn at his ranch was cut from a month to nine days, but he dived into the gritty, sweaty labor that he loves. Each week aides put a new photo album on a credenza outside the door to the Oval Office for the President and visitors to savor; the current edition features Bush in T shirt, ball cap and goggles, using power tools to cut a bike path through Texas scrub...
...took her on a tour of the place, Jackie complained to a friend that "it looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.") To see Jackie, at 31, take command of the White House was like watching an X-15 blow a sonic boom through your grandmother's credenza...
...syringe during performances of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron." Personal resolutions may simply pertain to your own vocabulary. For 2000, Sarah Jessica Parker has pledged not to use the F word. I also have a couple of purely lexical resolutions: "Not to use the words hiatus and credenza in the same sentence as much this year" and "to stop using the word umbelliferous in conversation altogether. (If I have to indicate that something is like a carrot, I'll just say, 'It's like a carrot.' I won't say, 'It's umbelliferous...