Word: stuffs
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...THEIR ART, the English have always had a knack for electroplating the basest metal with silvery gentility and presenting it like the finest tea service. This wonderful alloy of nastiness and reserve is the stuff of such typical British products as Alec Guinness classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, Agatha Christie's drawing room whodunits. Monty Python, and Evelyn Waugh, Brimstone and Treadestems from this tradition of black comedy, but departs from it by crossing over the boundary between laughter and darkness once too often. The result, while disturbing and thought-provoking, is ultimately unsatisfactory...
Like it or not, the "People" section is America-But so, one might note, are a whole slew of magazines dedicated t the heady stuff of glamorous gossip-People, Us, The National Enquirer, and others. Why don't i read them? These mindless mags may contain the same tasty tidbits Time brings us, but they suffer from another peculiarly American phenomenon, overkill. There's just too much there, and besides, the average Time reader has qualms about sporting a copy of this week's Enquirer on the coffee table. There are image problems...
...spite of his image concerns, Harvard experts said say de la Madrid would be wise to rely on his MPA training. Womack calls his task of reinvigorating the Mexican economy, now in its worst recession in more than 50 years, "very much like the kinds of stuff you learn how to do in the Kennedy School...
Recording stars strut their stuff nonstop on fast-growing...
...main ingredients in MTV's programming are "video records" or "videos": current recordings illustrated by 3-or 4-min. videotapes (provided free to MTV by the record companies) in which rockers strut or act out their stuff. These are punctuated every few songs by the patter of veejays (video jocks). MTV also features some live concerts, a range of promotional graphics that are sometimes wittier than the musical segments surrounding them, and flashes of rock gossip ("Split Enz don't use a conditioner...