Word: fancier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Which is why Hillary Clinton is forced to pay 4 or 5 million dollars for the place on O Street. The oldest American story: When your own past seems a little raw and even, at times, humiliating, you buy yourself a fancier one. After a while, no one will remember what went before...
...Barnum's Kaleidoscape, I was thrown back to the old days of the carnival midway, surrounded by food and souvenir hawkers and performers on both the ground and on the stage. Granted, the food at this tent pitched in New York City's Bryant Park was a bit fancier and more expensive, but there was unmistakably the same feeling of excitement in the air. Surrounded by artists performing small tricks, juggling, singing and playing, the crowd was not only warmed up but also invited into the intimate circus experience to come...
...time-honored test of one's social clout. Not anymore. A new service called DinnerBroker.com is selling dinner reservations over the Internet. Need a primo table tonight at San Francisco's swank La Folie restaurant? It's yours for 20 bucks. The better the table time and the fancier the venue, the more you pay. The service is up and running in the Bay Area and is set to launch soon in Los Angeles, New York and 25 other cities. God help...
CALL IT MINI-PC The i-Opener ($99, $21.95 a month), from Netpliance Inc., looks like a tiny PC, with a sleek flat-panel screen, attached keyboard and 56K modem for Web access and e-mail. Surfing may be sluggish at 200 MHz, and the browser may gag on fancier websites. But for folks with limited needs, it's like a Yugo: for the money, it's an adequate way to get where you want...
Among the $500,000 homes and turquoise pools in one of the fancier precincts of Irvine, Calif., the gumshoes in white moon suits and gas masks looked weirdly out of place. But there they were last Friday digging up the yard of a churchgoing suburban gynecologist who had just committed suicide. And there they were removing--gingerly--six tall plastic canisters full of military-type weaponry, high-grade C-4 explosives with blasting caps, and possibly biomedical-research products...