Word: perfective
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...ever walked into a church and thought, "That pulpit would look perfect in my garden," LASSCO St. Michael's might be able to help. Based in a converted Victorian church in the heart of London, LASSCO sells everything from ecumenical artifacts to secular statuary. When a developer guts a chapel or strips the original features from a Georgian home, LASSCO's experts will carefully salvage the architectural antiques. The firm's cavernous St. Michael's warehouse is jammed with around $7.5 million worth of curios. A set of elegantly cast stair spindles removed from the Royal Albert Hall (a bargain...
...oldest part of town and features excellent cuisine and a first-rate wine list. The oldest vintage dates from 1704 (a mere $3,227). More reasonable was a $36 bottle of 1989 Breuer Riesling from the Bischofberg vineyard. Often oompah bands can be heard in the distance?a perfect German winery experience...
...shimmer." Farber, 40, has had no trouble writing books on The History of Anger, The History of Jealousy and even The History of Love, but she's hung up on writing the biography of happiness. Two kids running into the bedroom "like bright, sharp arrows," a "tidy, perfect, kitchen drawer" of a husband plus a book contract, and still, for Sally, happiness lies around the corner...
...KATIE BROWNELL already knows how to keep boys from reaching first base. Brownell--the lone girl in her upstate New York Little League program--pitched the first perfect game in the history of the league, on May 14. The young hurler struck out all 18 batters, leading her team, the Dodgers, to a six-inning, 11-0 victory over the Yankees in Oakfield, N.Y. The shy sixth-grader, who honed her skills playing with her two elder brothers, also boasts a .714 batting average. Sometimes during the season, her mother told reporters, Brownell's teammates teased her, saying she should...
...West on critics who do not even understand Arabic. "Somebody accused us of pushing a Sunni Wahhabi agenda on the world. I don't even know what a Sunni Wahhabi agenda is," he says. "Warts and all, the [staff members] have done a fantastic job. Nobody's perfect, but they have blazed a trail." At the same time, Parsons argues that Western news organizations' coverage is slanted. In covering the Iraq war, he contends, "there was a dereliction of duty. Not enough organizations showed the other side. There was an attempt to sanitize the war. We don't agree that...