Word: crystallizer
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...music, lyrics about sex and violence are often crystal clear. Talk of God, though plentiful, is usually veiled or mixed up with more worldly matters. Prince and Madonna peddle images of salvation but marinate them with eroticism. In one of his songs, rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg imagines confronting a supernatural being in a near-death experience -- but he doesn't make clear whether it's God or the devil. In an MTV Unplugged appearance, Kurt Cobain of the alternative band Nirvana performs a song called Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam. Is he being serious or ironic? His secular cool...
...well-bred Kittredges, Ouisa (Stockard Channing) and Flan (Donald Sutherland), who are charmed by a young, Black con-artist (Will Smith) who bursts into their Upper East Side apartment claiming to be a friend of their college-age children and the son of Sidney Poitier. Paul (Smith) shatters the crystal palace of these New York sophisticates as he enters their lives unimpeded, proving how eager and willing they are to suspend disbelief in the hope of enlivening their rather cold and empty existences...
...last year, the best showing since 1964, while paychecks got smaller. In inflation-adjusted dollars, average weekly wages have fallen from $272 10 years ago to $254 today. Adding insult to injury, the gap between executive compensation and ordinary pay has been rapidly widening. According to compensation expert Graef Crystal, the earnings of chief executive officers of major corporations have zoomed from 33 times the average income of U.S. workers two decades ago to 157 times the average today. (Japanese and German CEOs typically earn no more than 25 times what the average worker makes...
...modernistic glass pyramid in the the museum's vast central courtyard, the work brought accusations of aesthetic heresy. This time Pei has offended some observers by combining the museum with an underground shopping gallery that includes 13 fast-food counters and 60 boutiques, ranging from Lalique crystal to Esprit sportswear and a Virgin Records Megastore. The new commercial space is elegant and features at its center an inverted Pei pyramid, which echoes the one outside and bathes the beige limestone halls in a rich, silky light. To his critics, Pei responds in the best tradition of the king-picked artist...
...lesson for small investors is crystal clear," says John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors. "The average Joe or Jane should stay as far away from IPOs as possible...