Word: preciousness
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...responses were flat--he answered Keyes' philosophical question with a line about his pro-life Senate votes--but later he uncorked a strong set piece that managed to leap from abortion to his war record: "I've seen enough killing in my life," he told Keyes. "I know how precious human life is. And I don't need a lecture from...
...designing his memoir), argues, "People don't go to a bookstore looking for a cheap and ugly thing." McSweeney's contributor Sarah Vowell says Eggers' art background shows in both the physical journal and its self-aware marginalia (for example, its website, mcsweeneys.net offers reviewers a list of phrases--"precious, inconsequential, pointless"--to describe the journal). "Twentieth-century art was concerned with the thingness of things, how a painting is paint on a canvas," she says. "You can see that in how he emphasizes the journalness of the journal." It is the magazine as Joseph Cornell...
With an eye on keeping the blistering economy as stable as possible, Greenspan et al. meet this week to discuss another rate hike. Analysts predict another incremental raise, to 5.75 percent. Let's hope it works, otherwise there'll be plenty of gadgets stuffed in people's closets, and precious little safely nesting in the bank...
Students are well aware that their year at Harvard costs them a precious $34,350. It's hard to tell, though, where all that money goes on its way to making a difference in their lives...
...Landmark Pictures," currently at the Busch-Reisinger, artists Ed Ruscha and Andreas Gursky maintain that precious, otherworldly estrangement in chronicling the very ordinary. Ruscha, in fact, literally takes us into the plane with him in his series "34 Parking Lots in Los Angeles." Shot aerially, their meticulously drawn lines, directional arrows and predictably spaced gas stains are suddenly mesmerizing--and humorous. One stand-out is the photograph of the Dodger Stadium parking lots: emanating radially from the stadium like the leaves of an artichoke, they are at once industrial and organic. Ruscha's painted evocations of Los Angeles' grid-like...