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...sections--News, Money, Sports and Life--but the front page of each department boasts more pictures, crisper layouts and a more variegated palette of colors. The Sports pages, crammed with statistics, proved an immediate hit with readers. Money quickly became more consumer oriented, but Life struggled through months of fluff before sharpening its coverage...
Hitchcock himself would probably have liked It’s Only a Movie. It brings an air of playfulness to its subject. But playfulness can only go so far, and in a book of over three hundred pages, the fluff eventually fizzles into a sticky mess...
...Congeniality 2 is a very predictable piece of fluff, but, sometimes, a sweet comedy sequel that knows exactly what it’s doing is more enjoyable than a failed philosophical epic (think Matrix Reloaded). While occasionally slow and awkward (and about twenty minutes too long), the movie is a light guilty pleasure in which everyone can enjoy indulging...
...second segment of the Mori exhibition is given over partly to proposals by such architects as Japan's Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki for spectacular megastructures that are cities in themselves, endless systems of fabrication in which the built world is everything and nature is just that green fluff that Wordsworth used to go on about. These are dystopian imaginings, the last word in alienation, though it isn't always clear whether the architects who conceived them were much troubled by that. Either way, they are a fair representation of the impulse within some design circles to face the future...
...Next, get down on your knees and scrape a 4-cm patch of carpet with your fingernails about a dozen times. A small pile of fluff indicates poor-quality wool and a limited life-span. Then briskly rub a section of the rug with the flat of your hand. The palm should come up shiny?lightly greased from the wool's natural lanolin and a good indication of how well the carpet will age. "Do this in front of the shopkeeper," says Tawab, "and he will start bringing out his best pieces...