Word: modeste
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...more modest dresser than Carrie...
...fast fashion, when every street corner in every city offers the latest look for under $100, H&M is the fastest and cheapest source for trends. And yet it is surprisingly stealthy, based in a modest brick building in central Stockholm and run by a large group of mostly Swedish designers who cull the hippest looks from the multitude of styles emitted by TV, music videos, the street and the runway. With annual sales of about $6 billion, H&M is smaller than Gap Inc. (sales top $15 billion, and the Gap brand represents 46% of that) but bigger than...
Although the alliance has a modest budget of $900,000 a year, compared with $120 million for Focus on the Family, it has influence beyond its means. Just as Wolfson was promoting gay marriage when gays wouldn't listen, Daniels was suggesting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage when conservatives wouldn't listen. When the alliance held a press conference to announce the idea in the summer of 2001, Daniels says, "there wasn't any debate going on about a marriage amendment." But by the following May, the alliance had lined up a Congressman--a Democrat, actually--to introduce...
Invitees to Beverly Hills, 90210 alumna TORI SPELLING's August wedding to actor CHARLIE SHANIAN had better move fast. There's only one $2,800 menorah on the pair's Tiffany registry, found by Gawker.com The couple also asks for a $595 alarm clock--and some modest domestic items from Williams-Sonoma. We assume the $10 meat tenderizer will get snapped up by Shanian's clan, not by father of the bride, producer Aaron Spelling. He's already given the groom roles on two TV shows...
This much is wonderful: Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's Kitchen Stories, in which he imagines an observer named Folke (Tomas Norstrom) perched in a sort of tennis umpire's chair, watching an old man named Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) doing his modest culinary chores. They're not allowed to talk; it would ruin the experiment's purity. But, of course, they do, these two lonesome men leading minimalist lives in the snow-shrouded countryside...