Word: scandinavian
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...doesnt have to be this way. The Scandinavian countries have excellent benefitsnot only for working mothers, but working fathers, tooincluding a longer paid maternity/paternity leave, in some cases, up to five years long. I know that the economists out there will point out that this is why European countries will run out of money to fund their extensive welfare system, but theres no reason why something on a more conservative scale couldnt be implemented in America...
What is ROMAN POLANSKI'S good name worth? £50,000 ($87,000) plus court costs, according to a London jury. The director of Chinatown and The Pianist won a libel case against Vanity Fair for a 2002 story that portrayed him as trying to seduce a Scandinavian model on his way to the 1969 funeral of his wife Sharon Tate, who was murdered by followers of psycho guru Charles Manson. The magazine stood by the story but said that the incident happened a few weeks later than reported...
...Jerry's is getting fat on America's growing appetite for so-called super-premium ice cream, brands made with natural ingredients and plenty of butterfat. Häagen-Dazs, the ice cream that has the pseudo-Scandinavian name but is made in America by Pillsbury, pioneered the superpremium field and spawned such imitators as Frusen Glädjé from Dart & Kraft and Alpen Zauber, which is produced by a small Brooklyn company. Americans last year gobbled an estimated 66 million gal. of superpremium ice cream, up about 12% from...
...Movies were getting sexier in the 60s. I mean films. European ones, Scandinavian ones: Bergman's The Silence, Vilgot Sjoeman's I Am Curious Yellow, that not-so-arty art-house hit I, a Woman. Cinema eroticism came with subtitles, until a renegade Hollywood faction got the word and married social and sexual issues in Medium Cool, Easy Rider and the Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy -all rated X, back when that designation simply meant a film for adults, not a porno film. Back when sexually urgent films were made for thinking adults. As I say, this was a long time...
...whatever she’s doing, Rosalie C. Thede ’06 will be singing. Her husband and kids are sure to tease her about the beautiful, clear notes that bounce off the tiles as she showers. She’ll still be the blondest one of all, Scandinavian to the core, and send us homemade cookies for St. Lucia?...