Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months ago that the CD player seemed guaranteed to be around for a while. Today industry experts aren't so sure. "There is a fear that MiniDiscs could knock out CDs, which have become a standard," observes Michael Riggs, executive editor of Stereo Review. "I would really prefer that it wouldn't happen because it might upset the investment people have made in CDs." A lot of other people would have that preference too, it seems safe...
...then, a scoop. It speaks with a cigarette behind its ear and a toothpick in the corner of its mouth. Its headlines are punchy and raunchy: HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR and BEST SEX I EVER HAD. Men read these papers mainly for sporting news. Women prefer tabloids, jokes Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, "because women tend to have shorter arms...
...coal, which has a high BTU content in relation to its price. Even so, a BTU levy would be far less punitive than a carbon tax. "The BTU tax doesn't cause ^ any big shift in fuel choices," says an official of the United Mine Workers union. "We prefer it to the carbon tax, which could destroy our industry." But the levy would still run afoul of powerful interests that reject the very idea of new energy taxes. Says Charles DiBona, president of the American Petroleum Institute: "The deficit is a national problem and requires a national solution...
...prefer Valentine's Day tales of the home-cooked variety, stories that touch on deeper affections. My Valentine's Day memories extend beyond Cupid's arrow and puppy love. Mine are the sort that says blood (the color of valentines) is thicker than water...
...general, though, Koons' work simply repeats the debased polychrome baroque of kitsch religious sculpture in an inflated and condescending way. "Love me," the stuff says. "I'm your culture." Koons' way of looking radical to the highly acculturated is to play a tease: Don't you really prefer silly knickknacks to Poussins or Picassos? Don't you long for the paradise of childhood, before discrimination began? "Don't divorce yourself from your true being," he wheedles in the catalog, in the accents of a quack therapist. "Embrace it. That's the only way you can truly move on to become...