Word: daffyness
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But Carkeet's skill is equal to his ambition. Once again he has turned a daffy concept for a novel into a stimulating display of wit, erudition, humanity and narrative force. He weaves his diverse strands with cunning and charm and adroitly sustains suspense in what could easily have been...
“If you’re homeless in Boston...you have to be kind of daffy not to schlep to Cambridge to see if you can get some undergrads to give you money,” says Christopher S. Jencks ’58, Wiener professor of social...
Markets aren't infallible, of course: Australian punters failed to predict the upset wins of Paul Keating in 1993 and Steve Bracks in 1999. And I.E.M. traders wrongly predicted in 2000 that Bush would win the popular vote as well as the presidency. In early July, Centrebet manager Gerard Daffy...
It's a familiar refrain these days. Counterfeit shopping has become something of a sport, much to the chagrin of luxury-goods manufacturers. Fake designer bags are everywhere, it seems--so easy to buy that in some circles it's almost uncool to carry the real thing. Once limited to...
So far, the bad publicity has hardly put a dent in the trade, largely because China's factories are getting so good at churning out nearly perfect fakes. (Discounter Daffy's, for example, claims it was duped into buying high-quality fake Gucci bags--and promptly took them off the...