Word: glaring
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...when talent scouts still scoured Seattle for the next Nirvana, handing out record deals to young men in flannel with evocative band names (remember Candlebox?). Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, Sleater-Kinney's singer-guitarists, lacked the commercial ambition to come up with a moniker that didn't glare at them from the highway. "Our friends gave us a lot of flak," says Brownstein, "naming all the other roads in Olympia that we could have used." David Geffen's ear was not glued to the wall of their cube...
...convention - and the attendant media frenzy - to his beloved city. The decision was a triumph for Philadelphia's corps of revivalists, long dedicated to bolstering their city's battered image, and struck fear into the hearts of city workers, who knew the spotlight would cast an unforgiving glare on urban blight. And that meant a marathon of scrubbing, painting, trimming and pruning... not to mention a few instances of creative camouflage...
...third "Real World," but with the success of "Survivor" and the arrival Wednesday night of its claustrophobic real-time sibling, "Big Brother," the vicious side of voyeurism is starting to shine through. Exposing your life (and blurred private parts - thank you, Insensitive Naked Man Richard) to the glare of a million water-cooler pundits is one thing. Being publicly branded as unworthy is another...
...Neighbors took CBS's Early Show to court because it is: a) too loud b) causing too much foot traffic c) using glass that causes an unpleasant glare d) unwatchable...
Bush, who staunchly defends all 131 executions performed during his tenure in Austin, is taking a renewed interest in the 43-year-old's case under the harsh glare of the national spotlight. McGinn has been on death row since 1995 for the murder and rape of his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Stephanie Flanary. Because the evidence supporting the murder charges was so overwhelming, no one has challenged that aspect of his conviction. But in Texas, a murder conviction alone is not a capital crime; the killing must be accompanied by an aggravating crime, like rape, in order...