Word: jarring
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...only place in the world written up in both Penthouse and Civilization, the Library of Congress magazine. When Giecek first explored the dank basement rooms, which the madams hadn't used since the '40s, he found lipsticks, a 10-minute timer, chamber pots, an ancient jar of Vaseline. In one room, the bed frame had worn through the flooring...
Hollis Brooks, 44, a lifestyle writer, knew better than to believe a lotion could turn back time. But two years ago, when a few fine wrinkles appeared above her lip, she decided to dip into the plain little jar of Creme de la Mer at the Neiman Marcus counter. Impressed that it was created by a NASA scientist, she paid a lot--$85 for a 1-oz. jar--and is happy to keep on paying. The pesky lines haven't gone away. But they also haven't got worse. And now she sounds like the saleslady who first hooked...
...narrow. But by painting what he knew, neither more nor less, he became the standard-bearer of visual truth to a generation of French intellectuals, the Encyclopedists, led by the philosopher Denis Diderot. To them, Chardin's refusal of the highfalutin theme seemed exemplary. He showed that a jar of apricots on a table could be just as important and freighted with meaning as a battle scene in an epic of Alexander, the impregnation of a nymph by Apollo, or the reception into Heaven of a patron's patron saint. In time, Chardin's "natural vision" would be eclipsed...
...dysfunctional market masquerading as a competitive market," charges Michael Shames, executive director of the San Diego-based Utility Consumers' Action Network. Prices for electricity have been spiking up in some regions; capacity is lagging demand, threatening customers across the nation with brownouts and blackouts this summer. "The cookie jar is open, and everyone wants to get what they can," Hawkins says. "They've got it, we need it, and we're going to pay through the nose...
...love peanut butter, but sometimes having to stick the knife in the jar seems so labor intensive. Is there an easier way to make lunch...