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Fondling a martini, flaked out on the sofa in his Beverly Hills home, bald, bespectacled Gene Kelly could pass as the aging big star lapsing into the big fadeout. But not so. One flourish from that invisible 100-piece orchestra that always seems to follow him around, and he would undoubtedly slap on his hairpiece and straw hat, pirouette over the coffee table, go tippity-tap-tapping along the poolside, buck and wing it across the volleyball court, and end up with a ten-minute improvisation on the monkey bars...
...caveat emptor. Yet in an economy where outstanding credit totals $92.5 billion-at an annual cost of $12.5 billion in interest-the wary buyer or borrower is rare. Some of the interest rates charged-and paid -in the U.S. would scandalize Shylock. A Manhattan woman bought a $300 sofa that actually cost her $624 after two years of installment payments with interest of 108%. A Jersey City man ended up paying $420 for a TV set priced at $123.88, thanks to a 229% annual interest rate. One used car entailed 283.9% in interest charges...
Electra Webb loved to talk in such proverbs, and the new memorial building at Shelburne faithfully reflects her homespun, silver-spoon style. The Rembrandts in the living room complement a Chippendale sofa covered in needlepoint, an English secretary and an English gaming table. Mary Cassatt's pastel of Electra's mother hangs in her bedroom. Desk and dresser tops are crowded with silver-framed photographs of her children and grandchildren-and a white satin pillow on the bed bears the red-embroidered maxim: "We live in deeds, not years...
...fork, attached to a simple chain, that vibrates at 34,200 cycles per second-just above a dog's threshold of hearing. The sound creates a fleeting moment of distraction for the animal. When a dog owner spots his pet doing something wrong-such as chewing on the sofa-he simply tosses the Hi-Fido on the floor. The tuning fork vibrates, the dog is distracted, and eventually, insists Miller, a Pavlovian association is created that makes the sofa itself a distraction. If the animal then proceeds to gnaw on the Hi-Fido, it is clearly psychodogmatic. A cure...
...didn't lose a single man. What was the American aim?" he goes on. "They aimed to liquidate socialist Cuba. Our aim was to preserve Cuba, and Cuba still exists." Recalling the tense hours of the confrontation, Khrushchev said one night he slept fully dressed on his studio sofa. "I did not want to be in the position of one Western minister who, during the Suez crisis, rushed to the telephone without his trousers...