Word: fancier
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According to Jundai Liu, the BAT team coordinator, BAT teams have a strict dress code for each event, and aside from one event last fall, she claims every BAT team member always dons formal dress for fancier events. Stanisz insists that BAT teams’ street clothes sightings are not as isolated as Liu believes...
Retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot are quietly replacing common items with more expensive versions, driving up the price of an average basket at their stores. Think of a plain gas grill replaced by a fancier one for $20 more. Sure, you get a warming tray, but you still pay more to grill your burgers...
...Village USA" has just completed a three-month run at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan. That one surveyed the moment two decades ago when that New York City neighborhood became the anti-SoHo, full of storefront galleries and artists who were thumbing their noses at the fancier dealerships around West Broadway. (At least they were doing that until they could get picked up by those dealers themselves.) And although the art world is a place of very diverse practices these days, two legacies of the '80s turn up everywhere in the work of younger artists: an adolescent...
...lasted. His protagonist, Willy Loman, however, is an Everyman, someone who heedlessly believes all the lies that are fed to us--the ones about success and self-realization, the ones about consumerism, the ones about the necessity of being, as he puts it, "well liked." At the time, the fancier critics thought Willy lacked the noble stature for tragedy. But that's nonsense. We don't live in an Aristotelian age; we live in the age of Donald Trump. And Willy, trying to pass on his false values to his sons (and incidentally destroying them as a result), has become...
...Murray has the power to turn any place into his stage. After a long day of talking about himself, he walks into one of New York's fancier restaurants just before closing, with no reservation, dressed in jeans, a flannel shirt and an aggressively unstylish vest. There are no tables immediately available, and so Murray launches into his version of singing for his supper. He makes fun of the hostess's Carolina accent ("Golly, you from around here?"), jokes about the restaurant's d??cor ("I feel a little overdressed") and shakes hands with everyone who comes...