Word: saucerful
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...Take Dave, for example. As the carnival quietly ran out of steam on a Sunday night, he loomed like an apparition out of the "dance zone," poured beer on his naked chest, embraced me, tweaked my nipple and regarded me with saucer eyes. Here was authentic Koh Samui man, unabashed and raving. "Sorted mate," he said. "Effing sorted or what?" The carnival had made someone happy, anyway...
...they got a chance to sound off. "This American-style remuneration has no place in this country, and if you don't revise this package you will have set a very dangerous precedent," shareholder Victor Silk told HSBC chairman John Bond. But in the end, Aldinger carried off his saucer of cream with relative ease. Bond's argument that Aldinger would be getting slightly less than his previous pay package was grudgingly accepted by the majority of shareholders, and institutional investors voted heavily in his favor. And so Aldinger, who now ranks among the highest-paid executives in Britain, will...
...then Louis Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs asked Murakami to apply his loopy, bright, Hello-Kitty-on-ketamine look to a line of the company's accessories. Murakami transformed the company's classic (though dowdy) brown-and-gold bags into a multihued riot of LV logos and saucer-shape, cartoon-eye designs on a field of shocking white...
Sipping chai at College soirees may help with social skills, saucer balancing and making conversation—but it may also may help boost the immune system, according to a Harvard study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Monday...
...personal favorite of NBM's recent adaptations, "The Yellow Jar" (48 pp.; $12.95) by the previously unpublished Patrick Atangan, doesn't look or read anything like your typical Japanese comic. No saucer eyes, robots or schoolgirl outfits can be found. With Hokusai and Gustav Klimt as his influences Atangan has adapted a pair of Japanese folk tales into a gorgeous hybrid of comix and prints of ancient Japan. The titular story begins when a fisherman collects a yellow jar in his net. Somewhat disappointed that it contains no treasure, instead he finds that it holds a sleeping woman. She agrees...