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According to Saks' fashion director' Michael Fink, Louboutin's shoes--which retail on average for $800--are one of the store's top-selling brands. "It's the mystique of the extremely sexy pump," says Fink. "And, of course, the subtle branding of the red sole really helps...
...Hulu does have huge gaps. You can fill in those gaps two ways. One is with money: Apple's pay-per-download iTunes store has a wider selection of TV shows and movies than Hulu, as does Amazon's Unbox service. Two is with your immortal soul: you can download all this stuff for free, illegally, via LimeWire, BitTorrent and lots of other file-sharing systems...
...items, from porcelain to purses. The figurines were used as table decorations at lavish Baroque banquets and festivals and created an atmosphere of luxury, which Valerie Steele, from The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, likened to the feeling one gets today when walking into a Louis Vuitton store. “Part of the luxury experience is going to the store and admiring the architecture,” Steele says. “Modern luxury is an aura of excellence.” In the 18th century, these porcelain centerpieces often depicted miniature versions of the gardens they...
...reflection on his own profession, scrutinizing journalism in light of Hogue’s actions: “While it is facile to equate journalism with lying, it is also true that both actions share in common an unpleasantly instrumental approach to people and language that diminishes the common store of trust. The subject has no power to alter a reporter’s approach to his or her subject, or to take back a single word that they said.” Told in Samuels’s clean and direct style, “The Runner?...
...land, Nikolauk said, so an arrangement was made to haul sewage to the city plant. They always paid their bills - in cash. "I established rapport with two or three of them," Nikolauk says, but few members of the community were ever seen in town at the feed store or coffee shop...