Word: digging
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...summer. Who knew then it was a marker of a seismic pop-cultural shift towards boybands? The Hanson boys did, after all, play their own instruments. But it’s been fun chronicling those changes these past one-and-half years and to get in the occasional dig at Puffy and Britney. My thanks to all the Arts writers, to Thalia for allowing this column to go on and to anyone who sent in comments or who came up to me with suggestions. And thanks for reading...
...those of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and the Beanstalk—with an original plot involving the attempts of a Baker and his Wife to beget a child. The brilliance of the show is its ability to use the fairy tales as a starting point and dig deeper, questioning the value and durability of happiness won too easily. As the lyrics of the finale attest, “Wishes come true, not free...
...libraries and bookstores and books in general who also happen to be students, summer is the high point of the year. There is actually time to read that new novel or old favorite, reason to buy that random volume that catches your eye from the bookstore window, freedom to dig into that list of books to read you started last September. I once spent the summer in a sublet that belonged to a graduate student in the English department, and the sublet came with a library I still dream about. I spent that summer devouring what little I could...
...life when it comes to Internet security. At the office, I'm well protected by a corporate firewall. That makes sense; lots of people would probably like to crack AOL Time Warner's computer system. But at home, I have no protection at all. C'mon, who wants to dig through the to-do lists and video poker games on my Power...
...sand was now running through the hourglass. With the economy turning down in the summer and revenues falling, firms had to dig deeper and deeper into their pockets to service their IOUs. By winter, four times as many companies had their credit rating downgraded as had it upgraded, the worst such ratio since 1990, according to Moody's Investor Services...