Word: inks
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...Martha Stewart jokes didn't seem as funny on Friday. You know, the ones about how black-and-white stripes are in this year and how a little lemon and seltzer can remove those pesky ink stains after you've been fingerprinted. As much as we revel in the failings of the famous, many folks figured she would never face prison. Such jests have the ring of tragedy now that she has been found guilty of obstructing justice and other crimes that all but guarantee she will end up behind bars...
...will try to keep the ink spilt on 2004’s inexorable dreck to a minimum, but I must mention the worst-looking film of the year, The Whole Ten Yards, an inexplicable sequel to 2000’s marginally successful Matthew Perry/Bruce Willis buddy vehicle. The film’s preview features a mulleted, apron-donning Willis vacuuming in bunny slippers as he scolds Perry for touching his chickens. So many questions, so very little interest in the answers...
Talk about credibility going down the tubes. And we wonder why ledgers around the league are drowning in red ink...
...Dari, one of Afghanistan's two official languages. Karzai, who out of fear of assassination rarely leaves the palace, asks Khalilzad how things look in the country he governs but almost never sees. Khalilzad unfurls a large map and points out various reconstruction projects marked in red and green ink--a network of roads and schools and irrigation canals that will be built, he says, as soon as the U.S. and NATO bring order to Afghanistan. Karzai nods impatiently but brightens when he locates the one major rebuilding achievement of his tenure: a 300-mile road linking Kabul to Kandahar...
...reasonably accurate picture of what one might buy on a spending spree in Harvard Square. The very existence of such stores seems to speak to a certain desire pervasive amongst us to accumulate, gather and spend: it lives, it breathes, it says “take me to Black Ink and buy some plastic sushi...