Word: dominoed
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MARTY MARKOWITZ, Brooklyn borough president, on a Domino's ad campaign for its new Brooklyn Style Pizza...
...sure, regards it as a good thing. But it is possible to view the test--and the state of play in the nuclear world more broadly--in more apocalyptic terms than is warranted. Many question, for example, Allison's argument that North Korea will unleash a sort of nuclear domino effect--with one country after another scrambling to get nukes. Take, for example, the nonnuclear countries in East Asia closest to North Korea: South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. All are wealthy, technologically sophisticated countries that could go nuclear in a heartbeat. (South Korea had a clandestine nuclear-arms program...
...DOMINO IS tipping at Yale, where a faculty committee has moved to "accelerate" its review of the college's admissions program, the YDN observes. The school faces pressure to ax its non-binding, early-action program after Harvard did so earlier this month. Princeton followed suit, dropping its binding, early-decision program a week later. Yale President Richard Levin won't say what the committee will decide, but will say how often they'll meet: "more or less monthly." Only in higher education can that be considered accelerated...
That ideal runs so strong and so deep in our culture and psyche that when experts talk about the value of family dinners, they may leave aside the clutter of contradictions. Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. Just because we are sitting together doesn't mean we have anything to say: children bicker and fidget and daydream; parents stew over the remains of the day. Often the richest conversations, the moments of genuine intimacy, take place somewhere else...
Juana Molina “Son” (Domino) 4 Stars Living in an age of celebrity, we’ve come to take crossover attempts for granted. We’re willing to look the other way while Lindsay Lohan records a solo album; we’ll forgive Jessica Simpson for taking a turn on the silver screen. But there are limits to our tolerance. There are rules specifying who can move between film and tape, and who can’t. Actresses? Sure. Athletes? Maybe. Comedians? No way. Juana Molina is—or was?...