Word: soft
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...walk into a store. I walked into a Gap recently and I immediately saw that there was no clear pattern to how old the customers were. There were some people in their late 30s, some people in their early 20s. The music that was playing was a kind of soft rock, pop, instrumental music. Their campaign was about legacy, "We've been selling great-fitting jeans for 40 years." Then I walked into an Express store. The music was up-tempo and hipper. It wasn't edgy, but there was a lot more bass. Instead of legacy sales...
...perpetual struggle, yet Agassi, who won eight Grand Slams, survives the excruciating points, and your eyes stay glued to the action. He can hit a loud smash. In case you haven't heard, at one point in his career Agassi grew quite fond of crystal meth. Still, his soft shots carry the day. Agassi describes, in exquisite detail, how he wooed Steffi Graf by cobbling together a birthday card out of two airplane menus and raffia coiled around a champagne bottle. All together now: awwww...
...Avenger is a holy fighter who smites evil in preemptive strikes, the Dungeons and Dragons version of the Bush Doctrine, John’s character is deeply conflicted internally. John showed up a game in a plaid shirt, eating a burrito. He’s tall and generally soft-spoken. In the game, he goes by Inigo...
Once back on Don Det, head over to Mr. Vong's, on the island's south, and dine on the local specialty of mok pa - minced fish, steamed in banana leaves with the addition of glutinous rice and coconut milk, giving it a very soft consistency. The island's limited electricity supply - lights go out by 11 p.m. at the latest - puts curbs on nightlife. But you could always take a few bottles of Beer Lao back to your cabin and enjoy them by candlelight while the waves roll...
Lipstadt also discussed what she called “soft-core Holocaust denial,” a new form of denial in which the Holocaust “gets mixed up with other things” and is “used as a misrepresentation.” As an example, she cited the comparison of George W. Bush to Hitler, which she said suggested an implicit denial of the Holocaust...