Word: prettier
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She’s one of a minority of students who breaks out of the battered Mead spiral-bound mold, opting for a prettier and pricier alternative. Designer labels aren’t just for the back pockets of jeans. Posh names like Coach and Louis Vuitton sell leather planners, and The Coop offers illustrated—and more affordable— Jordi Labanda notebooks...
...dining room, you will find a 5-ft.-high ice sculpture of the Buddha that, no surprise, is replaced every day. Ice? Well, if you forget every banquet-hall buffet centerpiece you've ever seen, it's possible to think of ice as the last word in enigmatic swank, prettier than crystal, hard enough to be a murder weapon but more perishable than cashmere. In this lavishly conceived room, with its pillars made from earthenware sake vessels and its massive temple bell, the ice actually looks rather elegant. And when it has been carved into the Buddha, one that...
...trimming to a terse 93 min. In other words, the film--a remake of the 1975 thriller about "perfect" suburban women who turn out to be robots--underwent the same radical makeover, the same behavioral modification, as the wives of Stepford. And with the same goal: to make it prettier and more pleasing. As for the Spielberg film, in early June the Internet cinephile site Ain't It Cool News blared the headline IS THE TERMINAL RESHOOTING ITS ENDING RIGHT NOW?! and noted that some industry screenings had been canceled...
...Eating in a prettier dining hall [Annenberg] is not worth the inconvenience,” said Robert Donnenfeld ’07. “And as far as meeting new people, it’s probably more beneficial to make upperclassman friends anyway...
Jerry's landscaping business is probably the best metaphor for what Aloft is about: he's a professional smoother-over of things, a burier of hatchets and skeletons and whatever else would look prettier covered by a manicured lawn or a bluestone patio or a Har-Tru tennis court. Of course, Lee isn't the first to point out that the suburbs hide uncharted depths of misery and discontentment--Updike, Rick Moody and John Cheever, among many others, have been here before. But Lee's portrait feels somehow more up-to-date than anything else out there, complete with postboom...