Word: razors
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Don’t get cut by the slashing of my reverse Occam’s Razor...
...history of architecture is filled with visions and then revisions. As each generation of architects corrects the utopias of the one before them, razor-edged towers are followed by biomorphic houses and sky-platform cities give way to clustered yurts. There are lots of these heady innovations in "Archilab: New Experiments in Architecture, Art and the City," the highly entertaining exhibition now at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, where it runs through March 13. Organized jointly by the Mori and the FRAC Centre Collection in Orl?ans, France, it brings together more than a half-century of attempts to utterly...
...richly deserved counterpoint to the irritating Bridget Jones franchise. Imagine Bridget on amphetamines and you have a fair idea of Gemma Bovery. The characterizations of Gemma as a rudderless yuppie, Charlie as the befuddled schlub, various French and English twits and even Joubert, the largely sympathetic baker/narrator are all razor sharp satires that always have enough humanity to keep them from becoming two-dimensional...
...very simple, but it's a potent combination." Robert McDonald, a P&G senior executive, hinted to TIME at new products that could capitalize on each firm's strengths. "We have the best-selling male fragrance in Hugo Boss," he says. "How about a Hugo Boss designer razor?" Problem is, with P&G already so big, boasting more than $50 billion in sales, it needs the equivalent of a new megabrand like Tide each year to hit its targets of 5% to 7% annual growth. That would be a lot of Boss razors...
Over the course of last weekend, Harvard moved from the playoff bubble to a comfortable, if not ideal, place based on Pairwise Rankings. Heading into the weekend, Harvard edged a razor-thin eighth place in the eight-team playoff...