Word: ernst
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...complete with e-tailer innovations - 360-degree revolving sneakers, watches and clothing - that are just making their way to car-buying sites in the U.S. Problem was, they went through their sizable $120 million stake like a New Mexico clearing blaze. "We wanted everything to be perfect," Swedish cofounder Ernst Malmsten told The Financial Times of the company's marketing- and technology-heavy spending habits. "My mistake has been not to have a counterpart who was a strong financial controller...
...Fraktur is more of a nationalistic font than a Nazi one. It is based on medieval German designs, and was certainly not the creation of the Nazis, though they propagated variations of it until 1941 when Hitler halted its official use. Yet Haacke's previous works, like 1994's "Ernst Junger," make it hard to fully absolve the artist from Giuliani's accusations. In that installation, done also in Fraktur, the artist directly associates the typeface with Hitler. Given that this motif was also used in 1988's "Und Ihr habt doch gesiegt" (And You Were Victorious after...
...some curmudgeonly types, all this E.T. talk is pretty brainless. Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, for one, considers the likelihood of life of any sort beyond our planet close to zilch. Says he: "The chance that this improbable phenomenon [the creation of life] could have occurred several times is exceedingly small, no matter how many millions of planets in the universe...
DIED. CHARLES GRAY, 71, actor who played James Bond's diabolical cat-stroking nemesis, Ernst Blofeld, in Diamonds Are Forever and the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show; in London...