Word: priceless
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...voodoo dolls), whose huge success (comparatively speaking) can undoubtedly be ascribed to his ability to tap into the aggregate pre-existing consumer consciousness by mimicking ads from Mastercard and Monster.com. The former has a tagline that includes "Campaign ads filled with half-truths: $10 million. Finding out the truth: priceless"; the latter shows a succession of adorable children proclaiming: "When I grow up, I want the government to have the same problems it has today. I want to vote for the lesser of two evils." This simple but brilliant idea to co-opt two of the most ingenious...
...ready to write a new chapter, with its 132 rooms cleaned and polished, its tennis court, jogging track, putting green, basketball hoop, swimming pool, theater, bowling alley and weight room fit for exercise. And in its offices, the fate of the world will continue to be deliberated, amid 500 priceless paintings and sculptures that tell the story of the great American adventure and the men and women who made it happen...
...which trains teams of seven to 10 retired adults and places them in elementary schools to provide classroom support to teachers in everything from reading and math to violence prevention. The team approach gives schools a critical mass of input from the volunteers. It also gives the volunteers something priceless: a chance to make friends with other older people engaged in the same worthwhile task. The Baltimore, Md., chapter, now in its second year in six schools, is monitoring the educational benefits for students and the mental, physical and social effects on the volunteers. Reading scores have gone...
...light. Yet in our memory, that face magically morphs into a hundred others--all of them Alec Guinness, whoever he was. His career was a bold statement comprising 60 years of whispers. In an era when grossness is king, subtlety needs to be honored. That was Sir Alec's priceless gift. He revealed himself through the protean cunning of a "faceless" film artist...
...Lathe has rarely been shown since 1980. (A Bill Moyers interview with Le Guin follows this airing.) Some of the no-budget effects haven't aged well--at one point the earth is visited by alien ships that look like electric hamburgers. The provocative exploration of consciousness, though, is priceless...