Word: souvenired
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...America, even tragedy becomes professionalized, and ground zero is now as distinct--and as commercial--a New York region as the theater district or the garment district. It's a throbbing 16-acre region populated by construction workers, itinerant volunteers, movie stars, religious proselytizers, uniformed officers, National Guard members, souvenir hawkers and more tourists than anywhere else in the city. Heroism has been replaced by capitalism New York-style...
...Twin Towers removed for possible display in a future memorial, the dozens of camouflaged Guard members and police officers stationed there now serve as the attraction itself, like the guards at Buckingham Palace. Tourists take pictures with them, chat them up and say patriotic thank yous before hitting the souvenir tables...
...this—the story that would be like a rock thrown at a beehive. Antoinette shifted her focus from the world outside to the interior of her spacious office. Lining its walls and adorning the imported furniture were objets d’art interspersed with personal mementos: the souvenir from the honeymoon to Tanzania, a piece of the Titanic, the original copy of Proust’s Rememberance of Things Past, the kids’ fingerpaintings. Those fingerpaintings became a sudden interruption of her patient reflection when they reminded her of the charity ball for urban afterschool programs...
...soldiers crouched against the door leading to the roof. The missile hit at 4:05 p.m. For a split second, as the concussive sound waves radiated outward, lungs emptied. Shrapnel whistled by. Then Alliance soldiers burst into applause. A U.S. soldier picked up a fallen piece of metal. "Souvenir," he said, grinning. Six more strikes followed before the British SAS commander re-established contact with Dave, still penned in with the TV crews. The SAS soldier told the Alliance commander that after two more strikes, his men should fire all their weapons. "Our guy is going to try to make...
...vision as possible. Her books work. That's the reason 100 million have been sold." Although she rarely visited the set, Rowling was involved during preproduction, when crucial design and plot decisions were being made. Columbus wondered early on where to put Harry's lightning-bolt scar, a souvenir from his infancy, when he had his first run-in with the evil Lord Voldemort, who killed his parents. Editions of the books all over the world showed the scar in various places, so the director went to the source. "I drew a face with a wizard...