Word: lions
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...much they're willing to pay. Haggling is not only mandatory, it's automated. Sales have a deadline; everything must go. And most importantly the quality of the bazaar increases exponentially with its size. There are rival online auction services - Yahoo! and Amazon.com again - but eBay still has the lion's share of the market, about 85%. Put simply, it maintains the lead because it has the lead. If you're a seller, there's nowhere better...
...this very serious-looking javelin the twenty-something Kristin had speared a toy lion cub. "It's to show how I could survive" she explained. But it's only a miniature plush animal, I pointed out. "But it proves I could kill if I was hungry." I asked her what gave her the killer instinct. "I teach 30 fifth-grade kids...
Throughout his life, but especially toward its end in 1883, that lion of early modernism, Edouard Manet, loved to paint still lifes. Even in his portraits, his arrangements of things--books, bottles, crockery, flowers, food--are given a prominence that nearly puts them on a par with people. His art wasn't dominated by still life, as Cubism would be; but the inanimate has a large and vital presence in his work. That much is evident from the beautiful show at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, curated by George Maunet, "Manet: The Still-Life Paintings." What one might...
DIRECT HITS "Direct-to-video" movies used to mean "not good enough for theaters." But lately that hasn't been the case with children's films. Kids eager to see more of familiar characters from such hits as The Lion King and The Little Mermaid can find them in sequels, including Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (released last week) and Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie, which spins the TV series into a full-length extravaganza...
...DIED. IRINA BUGRIMOVA, 91, feted Russian circus artist who was the country's first woman lion tamer; in Moscow. Joining the circus as a teenager, she tried motorcycling and acrobatics before turning to the big cats. When she retired at age 67, she had performed with some 70 lions and been decorated as a "Hero of Socialist Labor...