Word: dust
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...download, made Billboard's Top 10 with a paltry 4,000 sales in one week. "We know the demand is out there," Gillespie gamely insists, "but when you start asking people to pay for it ? " Either the price is wrong or Madonna needs a new songwriter. Mug Today, Dust Tomorrow Next time you take a sip from your favorite mug, ask yourself how old it is; Tom Dixon, a British product designer and creative director of the houseware shop Habitat, predicts it's under three years old. After that, it's likely to have been chipped or cracked. Using...
...works of the great Spanish surrealist - but the 3,700 sq m leased by the Saatchi Gallery had lain empty since 1988. Designed in 1907 in an overblown classical style, the building, with its pillars and wood-paneled interiors, is imposing. When the gallery moved in, the dust of 17 years was waiting to be swept out - as well as the carcasses of 50 dead pigeons in the chandelier. The opening show is a Hirst retrospective, including Love Lost - a submerged gynecologist's office containing 20 live carp - with the Hirsts distributed among the other works. Most visitors will enter...
...digress. And meanwhile, the gift certificate remains, collecting dust. This whole situation reminds me of the scene in Reality Bites when the disillusioned Troy quips, “I ride my own melt.” Whatever that means, I think it sums up where I am. The days are numbered, optimism is waning, the daydreams fade. Strength and honor, I tell myself, but to be honest, I don’t think that there’s much hope for this thing riding out as expected, no coup de grace. And that?...
Over the past couple weeks, the media has struggled to broadcast every Pentagon press release, presidential pronouncement and embedded report on the war on Iraq. Almost all other issues have been left in the dust, such as the fate of the small Central Asian nation that was the site of our last attempt at national liberation. But, even after fading from the attention of the Bush administration and the American media, Afghanistan is still plugging away...
...member of the Harvard women’s golf team, it means you turn your game up a notch and leave two-thirds of the field in dust...