Word: minting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...every event as if she's having tea with the Queen. At a rally in a tobacco warehouse so humid we all feel like chain smokers, Dole appears in a bubble-gum pink suit with beige pumps and stockings. If someone were to, say, spill barbecue on her, a mint green spare is hanging in her Buick sedan...
...rolls and ripples around the wearer's body thanks to multiple layers of shading. And yet, strikingly, she sometimes pays no attention to such traditional techniques as foreshortening or horizon lines. More strangely, rather than the usual black and white she has chosen a bizarre color scheme that evokes mint chocolate chip ice cream. Like suburbia itself, this peculiar mix of the natural with the oddly artificial takes some getting used...
Rest assured, ABSK, that the irony has not escaped us. Unlike the Altoids mint, a throw-away product of the twentieth century, Bible studies have, for better or worse, long been the “original celebrated” pastime of Western culture. But the ad’s clever premise is potentially jeopardized by its deeper implications: Are we to assume that Bible Studies, too, may be commodified for our consumption? Does the ad’s success rely, at least in part, on its prominent display during “shopping period”? This ad may have...
...that he knows when to listen and when not to. He'll hear proposals from both sides, then ignore everybody and find a middle ground he thinks is fair. Then he devotes himself to lobbying the claimants toward his proposal. And let me tell you, he could make a mint as a lobbyist...
...mint has been made. The Feinberg Group, with offices in New York City and Washington, is one of the top mediation practices in the country, and Feinberg has been known to receive seven-figure fees for his expertise. When Attorney General John Ashcroft asked him to be the special master of the compensation fund in December, Feinberg accepted pro bono...