Word: merite
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...destruction of the planet. Americans have shown that even modest population growth causes devastating overconsumption. As the materialistic aspirations of the middle class spread to the developing world, no amount of technology will save our species from extinction. There has to be a generation of people who see merit in consuming less than their parents and who are willing to set an example for their children. Saving the earth is not about government regulation; it is about personal responsibility. DOUG DEANGELIS Ipswich, Mass...
...typefies the popular appeal of youth - a craze that's paying handsomely for 19-year-old Lolita Pille. Her novel, Hell - a self-obsessed, semi-autobiographical gaze into the drug-sodden and libertine demimonde of rich Parisian adolescents - has been on the bestseller lists since May. Despite a literary merit Assouline puts at "zero," Hell sells, he says, "because there is a sizable market of teenagers who want to read a teenager writing about self-destructive teenagers. As in other businesses, publishers will use gadget-books and gadget-authors to satisfy demand." Happily, as Assouline notes, a boom in bottom...
...protein- and fat-drenched meat and butter one wants but must cut out cereal and bread. And if Sieger is puzzled by certain aspects of the diet--among other things, the initial phase is so low in fiber that constipation is often a problem--she finds merit in others. "I guess I'm curious to see if it works," she says. "I'm willing to give...
...movies: Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember (with the foil fatale, Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles). But now director Isaac Julien aims to put blaxploitation into the canon with the documentary BaadAsssss Cinema (IFC, Aug. 14, 10 p.m. E.T.), which unashamedly argues that those movies had artistic merit and political force...
...movies: Undercover Brother and Austin Powers in Goldmember (with the foil fatale, Foxxy Cleopatra, played by Beyonce Knowles). But now director Isaac Julien aims to put blaxploitation into the canon with the documentary BaadAsssss Cinema (IFC, Aug. 14, 10 p.m. E.T.), which unashamedly argues that those movies had artistic merit and political force...