Word: polished
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With the skills assembled and the body honed, a finishing polish was all that was left to be applied...
...conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively in his swivel chair, his bespectacled eyes crinkling into...
...that woman on the bus next to you really painting her lips with pink nail polish? No, that's Lip Polish, a new line from Lorac that comes in colors like Amuse, the bright-pink shade worn by Jessica Simpson of MTV's Newlyweds. "We wanted to create something small, chic and playful," says Carol Shaw, founder of Lorac. As a bonus, the consumer gets a gloss that is scented with a hint of vanilla and mint. --By Alix Strauss
...Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist?and was severely chastised by conductor Leonard Bernstein... among other things [Plimpton] is editor of the Paris Review, a fine literary quarterly ... Says Polish-born novelist Jerzy Kosinski: ... 'He comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be?that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust, but should re-create an ideal search for experience...
...songs Europe-wide. Seattle-based RealNetworks plans to roll out its Rhapsody service here next year. But for now, Europeans who want legal downloads are mostly living with the pause button. The E.U.? You'll Fit Right In! Poland's economic troubles deepened late last week as the Polish zloty, wobbling with uncertainty over government fiscal policies, hit new lows against the euro (€1 equals 4.66 zlotys), squeezing imports and pushing up interest rates on euro loans. Meanwhile the country's budget deficit - a whopping 5.2% of GDP - is ringing alarm bells in Brussels as Poland prepares to join...