Word: ness
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...joins that stable, with an added plus: Fulham's owner Mohamed al Fayed will place Airness products in another asset he owns - Harrods, the London department store. Such coups have enabled Koné to build Airness into France's largest-selling domestic sportswear brand. Relying on his intelligence, busi-ness flair and never-say-die attitude, Koné is an all-too-rare success story: a young black man from the kind of blighted, unemployment-racked French suburban housing projects that erupted in riots last year. In addition to being one of the brightest lights to have come from...
Players and coaches agree: Matt Vance, Harvard baseball’s starting center fielder, is a real “California guy.” While in some spheres the description might suggest laziness, beach bum-ness, or overuse of the word “hella,” it remains a shining compliment when those who know Vance describe...
Ricky B. Shah ’09 said that the aesthetics of the new social space are crucial to “establishing identity” and should contribute to a feeling of “homey-ness...
...tries too hard. A visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, prompts a thesis about that sport as the country's true religion. Americans themselves probably see it as just another drug-riddled branch of the entertainment business. In addition, Lévy's European-ness draws him, like generations of other Old World observers, to all that is grotesque and egregious in the U.S. In his 25,000-km tour Lévy makes sure to visit a gun show in Fort Worth, a "partner-swapping club" in San Francisco, the gigantic Mall of America...
...drawn to loss-ness of a certain kind, aloneness. Which is not peculiar to a lot of writers. Many writers use that as their stepping-off place because I think one thing that writers share in common is this sense of aloneness. Of somehow or another being cut off, being outside, and somehow having to communicate through writing. That?s the need for writing. And I find the characters I write also have that quality, of being somewhat or very much removed from the mainstream of life, and don?t know quite how to find themselves in society. Outsiders...