Word: drips
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...poetic, but still real and funny. One standout piece, called "My American Labels" (which also appears in Roadstrips, a fine new anthology of American cartoonists published by Chronicle Books) reads as a series of long panels designed to be affixed over cans of beans. Each label, "Wooden House," "Cone Drip," "Panting Dog," etc., contains a meditation on being an American as well as the pleasures of summer. The one titled "Wall of Corn, " reads in part, "It's a metaphor for life in America. Obscene abundance brimming with promise that also feels stuffy and myopic...
Pour Cocoa Crispies and chocolate milk into a bowl. Sprinkle brown sugar on top. Melt butter and drip that on top too if you need an extra kick...
...Connor ’06 explored the realm of feminism by printing vivid and even shocking images of women—ranging from the classical nude to the bonded victim—on ripped, square pieces of white textiles. She also combined these prints with a multi-colored, abstract drip technique and chose to present the pieces by leaving them scattered on the floor of the studio, accompanied by a photograph of a similarly random arrangement on the asphalt of a parking...
...standout design feature is a broad hood and front end that slope gracefully down. The rear is compact, musclebound and squat, accentuated by sculpted fairings behind the seats. The overall profile conveys a neat blend of attitude: a little daring, just shy of being menacing. It doesn't drip machismo like Nissan's 350Z or feature the delicate bone structure of a Mazda Miata. With a starting price around $20,000 the Solstice is the cheapest roadster on the market (a hair under the new Mazda MX-5). GM plans to produce just 16,000 to 18,000 units...
...small, but it's growing like wildfire," says Clay, an American who worked in Rwanda before fleeing the violence. The co-ops' income has jumped from $650,000 in 2004 to $1.2 million in 2005 and is expected to reach $3 million in 2006. That's just a drip in the $11.4 billion world coffee market, but to farmers like Triphine Mukamyasiro, 23, whose family was killed in the genocide, it's huge. She made $30 annually when she started selling coffee in 1993. After joining a pearl co-op, she began earning some $400 a year, about twice...