Word: customizers
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...things that lends such power to Goya's women is simply that he viewed some of them with a degree of fear, as anyone might. He could not, even if he had tried, make them out to be little pink rococo sex dolls, as was so often the custom in France. Witches were female and had dreadful capabilities, and Goya painted and drew a lot of witches...
Brooks Brothers and Prada are enlisting high-tech partners to help improve their customer service. At the Prada Epicenter in New York City's trendy SoHo district, sales reps use handheld devices to scan garment tags that are fitted with Texas Instruments' R.F.I.D. (radio frequency identification) technology--the kind embedded in the electronic passes commuters use to zip past tollbooths. A tag scan at Prada accesses details about fabric, size, availability--even a film clip of the garment worn by a model--all of which are displayed on one of the store's ubiquitous flat plasma video screens...
...When you see a fellow biker, you should always nod,” Stith advised me. I eventually picked up on this custom and began gesturing to other bikers as they passed...
...notion of a debut dates back to 16th-century England and is credited to Queen Elizabeth, who formally introduced eligible young women to the court. Wealthy Americans adopted the custom in the 19th century as a means of letting interested men know their daughters were available...
Silbert and Farrell each received custom-made sculptures by Maya Lin, the creator of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C. The sculptures feature a magnifying glass in the center...