Word: skips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...battleground state, and you can practically skip from lawn sign to lawn sign without your feet ever touching the ground. But that just means the lawn-sign wars are raging after dark--swastikas painted on Bush's face, bullets shot through Kerry's, signs stolen and trashed and set on fire and mauled with a hatchet. Pennsylvania Democrats have reportedly been spreading itching powder on their signs to protect them from vandalism. In Oregon just about every last Kerry sign disappeared from Klamath County overnight. So now "I'm advising people to do with them like they do with their...
...skip away from the Square, Oona’s is Mass. Ave.’s hidden gem. The inner walls are packed to the brim with old clothing, ranging from the ratty to the antique. Those with a clear Halloween vision will be wasting their time here—rather, it is the ideal destination for the unsure shopper. After 33 years of business, Oona’s owner Kathleen White has perfected the art of creating unique and personalized costumes. The employees here will literally dress up the shoppers, creating unique outfits such as “nerdy...
...filmgoers, skip this one. You’ll regret seeing it. And if you want to see it, just wait until it gets to Lifetime, if it’s even good enough to make the rigorous damsel-in-peril screening process...
...Spokane to meet the people behind its audacious experiment, principally a guy named Don Stalter, CEO of Vivato, the high-tech start-up that supplies the technology to make it possible. Stalter didn't found the company; it began with a Hewlett-Packard engineer named Skip Crilly, who lived in the hills outside Spokane and couldn't get anybody to run a high-speed line to his house. Like any good engineer, he thought outside the box: maybe he could get the speed without the wiring. The standard wireless Internet technology, wi-fi, was cheap and fast, but it worked...
...Skip it, and go instead for Kuper's far more interesting adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle" (NBM; 48 pages; $16). When first published, its exposure of the Chicago meatpacking industry's outrageous conditions created a scandal that resulted in the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. But far more immortal than mere reportage, "The Jungle" retains its power to shock thanks to the artistry of the novel's characterization and cracking plot. It stars Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian bear of a man who, at the novel's beginning, has just arrived in America...