Word: preciousness
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...many precious pictures I have from my summer as a Congressional intern in Washington, none is quite as memorable as the one with Rep. James Traficant (D-Ohio), perhaps because it was so darn hard to get. Unfortunately, after his conviction in federal court last week on 10 counts of bribery and racketeering, among other things, those photo opportunities look to be even harder to come...
Examples include a speech given in March last year, in which Arafat praised “the blood of the martyrs as a precious asset to liberate the land,” and a better-known talk in a mosque in Johannesburg in 1994, in which he compared the struggle for “Palestine” to a story from the Koran which tells of a peace treaty signed by Muhammad with a strong enemy tribe. In the story, after building his strength, Muhammad abrogated the treaty, and then slaughtered the members of the tribe. The implication...
...essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger to corroborate his belief that writing movies is a valid intellectual pursuit. In a passage Silva calls “very well put,” Enzenberger claims, “Retreat from the media will not even save the intellectual’s precious soul from corruption. It might be a better idea to enter the dangerous game, to take and calculate our risks...We must know very precisely the monster we are dealing with...
...ever seen in the movies. His key to the bright lights is the most powerful gossip columnist in the country, a vicious, preening Walter Winchel-like monster named J.J. Hunsecker (Richard Lancaster on film and Lithgow onstage). In order to get into Hunsecker’s precious good graces, Falco must split up the relationship between Hunsecker’s sister, Susan, and nightclub singer Dallas...
...fact that retailers are dedicating more and more precious floorspace to restaurants suggests that they are tasty money-makers. Selfridges says that 8.5% of its overall revenues of $558 million last year came from food and restaurant sales. Richard Johnston, food and beverage controller at privately owned Harrods, says that restaurants bring in roughly 5% (not including sales in the famous Food Halls) of the store's total revenue. Harvey Nichols' food and restaurant division grossed $24.9 million last year, 14% of the store's overall sales...