Word: dross
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...bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only in the "style" of a certain century, Fifteen Minutes encourages us to revel in the pop cultural dross of Americana. What accounts for this phenomenon? How did it all happen...
...name was as good as gold through most of the '80s, as the savings bank based in Buffalo rapidly amassed a menu of failing savings banks around the state, with the blessings of business-first federal regulators. But as the go-go years went-went, Goldome turned to dross. The bank inched back toward profitability during 1989, only to face stricter capital requirements from a savvier set of feds in the wake of the S&L crisis. The new rules of the game finally proved Goldome's undoing last week...
American Express has just turned his Gold Card into dross, their posh London hotel is pressing them to settle a steadily mounting bill, and the future of his cocoa futures is dim indeed; the beans are rotting on the docks somewhere in South America, the result of a highly inconvenient strike...
...Love It seminar. She could write the book on most of it. She does not need a dawn trek to command explosive animal energy all day. Her touch at negotiating is magic -- people can't seem to tell whether they have come out of a deal with gold or dross, but whatever it is, they're happy. In her professional career Burns has held three positions and adored each one. Add the dozen-odd part-time jobs that she worked at from age 13 on to put herself through school -- she loved them...
...playpen. He is fascinated with its rustling paper, the paper of poetry. Noonan pecks the words out in the next room and feeds them into this electronic umbilical, and they emerge in Bush's speeches in Seattle and San Diego, fragments of silver in a year of political dross...