Word: spading
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Last Sunday afternoon, like everyone else in Los Angeles, I went on strike. I staged the walkout on the second floor of Fred Segal, the colorful Melrose emporium where hipsters like Charlize Theron and Michael Stipe roam among the Oliver Peoples sunglasses, Kate Spade luggage and the kinds of clothes made possible by perfect physiques and first-dollar gross participation. I went because Fred Segal was having a sale. "Up to 75 percent off!" they promised. A white shirt on a sale rack caught my eye. I liked it because the fabric weave contained nearly indiscernible but daring white circles...
...Kate Spade Baby...
...It’s In the Bag: Diet Coke, Nokia phone with red faceplate, pack of Parliaments, giraffe print Kate Spade make up bag with Stila cosmetics, Pentel Gel roller pens, Ordning & Reda Planner...
Colleges have a clear conflict of interest. They can't break the law. They have to please parents and alumni. And of course they want students to be happy and productive. This creates some obvious deviations between stated policies and practical applications. Why not call a spade a spade and make the policies reflect a real compromise between these interests rather than try to meet both with one set of rules for the books and one for the students...
...married to abstract thought in the past is often arid or withheld here, replaced by long drifts of spare and enigmatic statements or imperatives clothed in noble posturing. Yet when the poems do work (see particularly the title piece), Graham can still use language like a philosopher's spade to dig into experience--how we sense and think. These can be intoxicatingly deft moments, close to the ground of what it is to be alive...