Word: decibeled
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...afoot (so expect an announcement any day, goes the thinking), but whatever the outcome, the speculation has turned the spotlight on the luxury children's-wear category in general and more specifically on Bonpoint, which has always asserted the charm of Liberty prints and pin tucks over high-decibel, mini-me ensembles. Bonpoint is less a demonstration of that old clunker "good taste," with its black-or-white dress-code overtones, than of the marvelous French notion of un goût sûr: almost anything can work so long as it's not overdone, the proportions are considered...
...this issue's special report beautifully illustrates how we are less a Red and Blue nation than a United States of Purple. I've long believed that political polarization in America is much exaggerated and that the great mass of Americans are pragmatic moderates who tune out the high-decibel battles of the parties and the pundits. I agree with political scientist Morris Fiorina's thesis that as a nation we are closely divided, not deeply divided, and that graphic shows...
...sesame-laced mole sauce; later he creates a Mediterranean-Chinese tapenade. Each episode uses one recipe--for a rub, sauce, paste and so forth--as the base of several dishes, a starting point from which the home cook can improvise. Competent and low-key in an era of high-decibel chefs, Tsai delivers more steak than sizzle...
...inform every nonemployee that they're listening in, which is why you hear, "This call is being monitored for quality assurance." But there's no such protection for staff members. Bosses monitor calls with programs like Nice Systems', which sends an alert if your voice reaches a certain decibel level or you blurt out profane language or a competitor's name...
DIED. SHELLEY WINTERS, 85, zaftig, high-decibel star who played some of the movies' most famous victims; in Beverly Hills. Born Shirley Schrift, she had the attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary...