Word: parallele
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...work is full of references to comic books and cartoons, she didn't put them there as lazy quotations, a means by which to lend herself pop culture street cred. She connected her memories of Disney and Dick Tracy to the tropes of Surrealism, conflating them into a parallel reality that's both funny-pages funny and uncanny in that Surrealist...
...Fair Trading earlier today hit BA with a record $247 million fine after the airline admitted to colluding with rival Virgin Atlantic over fuel surcharges both airlines added to ticket prices. Later on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice, which was pursuing a similar case against BA in parallel with the one brought by the OFT, issued BA with its own $300 million penalty...
...have to sound a certain way to get on it. I never altered my music to do that. I made some albums where I might have bent my music, and they probably weren't some of my best efforts. But I always knew that if I had that parallel performing career, radio wouldn't be a real important thing for me. What was nice was having people pay their hard earned money to come in and have you entertain them for a couple of hours. That was much more important to me, always...
Even if the smells triggered a strong desire to drink, I had long since learned ways to talk myself out of it--or find someone to help me do so. Like the 90-day drying-out period that turns out to parallel the brain's recovery cycle, such a strategy is in line with other new theories of addiction. Scientists say extinguishing urges is not a matter of getting the feelings to fade but of helping the addict learn a new form of conditioning, one that allows the brain's cognitive power to shout down the amygdala and other lower...
...Danny Fanboy over there could come up with a list of nitpicks a yard long, too. (Did I mention that the camera photos have a strange glowy, vaseline-y quality to them? And personally I like a hardware button to press to take pictures, instead of software, placed parallel to the plane of the device, or I end up with shaky images. And either my thumbs are bigger than normal people's, or it really is tricky to type on this thing.) It's certainly tempting to. The hype for the iPhone has been so relentless - witness the screaming Yahoos...