Word: slices
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...recounts Delerm's imagined relationship with the French actress 27 years his senior. "We are listening to Gregorian chant," he sings. "She barely speaks and me I say nothing/ We have a relationship like that/ Fanny Ardant and me." Delerm deftly turns an implausible conceit into a finely observed slice of life, in which the odd couple spend awkward weekends at his parents' house. "I like the idea that we don't know the people around us, what's going on in their heads," Delerm says. "We see two people across from each other...
...contested ground, the American Dream. A bedroom set greets us in a store window. At its foot there's a slapdash cornucopia of consumer goods: radios, a record player, power tools. In the upper half of the frame, which reports a reflection in the window, we see a twilit slice of Main Street, U.S.A., where a trusty lamppost rises like a beacon and a church steeple makes its dogged case for the spiritual life. Now look deeply into the center of the image to find its tiny punch line. A single glowing word, CASHIER, beckons from roughly the point where...
...might be a little embarrassing" for Coldplay, admits HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo, but it's a hit with Jamster!, the Berlin-based mobile-phone entertain- ment firm that's already earned millions in Crazy Frog ring-tone sales. Jamster!, which is owned by U.S. software firm VeriSign, receives a slice of sales of the CD single, due for release in France this week. Will ring tones soon regularly outsell rock stars? Do the French like frogs' legs? - By Adam Smith...
...major talent that would need to be snapped up by a publisher if Stevens weren't doing it himself. Set in Boston's unique oasis for over-educated, self-involved, post-graduate do-nothings (I should know, I was one of them), the book reads as both a slice of life story and comic send-up. The story takes place over two hot summer days when Ingrid, a young woman whose mind is "wired for self-destruct," according to her girlfriend, runs into Mark, her cheating ex-boyfriend. Mark invites her to hang out with his friends the following evening...
...mermaid on the wall at Pinocchio’s has probably assumed the position of that flicker that Schimert talks about. You go in for some tomato basil, and while you devour it, a blond mermaid sits behind you in her sea-world, also munching on a slice...