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My friends have started making lists. Not the usual late-October variety: buy Thanksgiving ticket home, start attending Lit and Arts B section, finally pick up course pack from Gnomon. No, these lists have more of a doomsday quality, a sense that they signify some clock ticking down to a...
A) in a 1975 Mercury Marquis Brougham B) behind the photocopier C) in Jason Sehorn's cleats D) in J. Edgar Hoover's teeth E) on Jimmy Hoffa's head
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. There?s no reason-able explanation of Alexandre Dumas. He was a rich man. We note with inter-est that he went bankrupt in the theater. He was a revolutionary. His grandfather was a marquis, his grandmother was a negress. [He was] the wildest romance...
Washington, where I grew up, has always struck me as a curiously unsexual, or asexual, town. The game is power, with sex as an amateurish sideline. The high school game also is about power, which expresses itself in coteries, and in sometimes savage rituals of bullying. Sex in Washington, in...
Ambient's growth has taken off as "advertisers became increasingly aware that their big media budgets were not working," says Jessica Hatfield, The Media Vehicle's ceo. Observes Cabvision's Jon Marquis, who puts interactive TVs in cabs: "Advertisers see ambient as a way to cut through the clutter while...