Word: panning
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Grinda of Zingy made the leap into cell phones from another recent tech darling, online auctions. A native of France, Grinda sold his company Aucland, a pan-European version of eBay, to the Spanish company Terra in 2000. After watching a friend make a fortune in ringtones--a business he once thought would never be more than a novelty--Grinda got into the game himself. He started Zingy and sold it to the Japanese company For-Side.com last May, but he is still running the business and pushing the company into city guides and traffic reports...
...soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken often about doing a movie musical of Peter Pan. --TIME, March...
...plays we just do an assignment that are kind of unspoken—things off the face-offs and breakouts,” Corriero says. “We’ve just come to the point where we know each other so well that things just kind of pan...
...singing style that springs from an immigrant's fascination with her second language. On Poor Little Rich Boy she stretches words like girlfriend and café into epic solos, then crams long sentences into her mouth and spits them out in a few exuberant bars. Her music - from Tin Pan Alley to Carole King-style folk - is also a stylistic melting pot. Kathleen Edwards Back To Me Were Edwards not Canadian, her second album of alt-country old-flame songs might be too vicious to take. But because she sings with a sleepy, almost polite affectlessness (like Beth Orton...
...Perhaps Bacon, who never met his idol, was drawn to images that seemed tolerant of homosexuality, like the near-naked androgynous youths (one playing the flute, the other transported by the music) in the sketches for Picasso's monumental Pipes of Pan. When Bacon arrived in Paris at age 18 - after his father caught him in his mother's underwear and threw him out - he was certain of his homosexuality, but less certain of his artistic talent. He flirted with interior design when he returned to London in 1929 and, once he started painting, destroyed most of his early efforts...