Word: therings
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Amazingly, there is. Charles Seife's Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking) is the more accessible of the two. (The other book, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero [Oxford], while philosophically deeper, is self-consciously obscure; its author, Robert Kaplan, writes in Zen koans and...
Every schoolchild knows how "dangerous" zero can be. Just try dividing a number by zero and all hell breaks loose; indeed, zero was once scorned as the devil's work. It is such a familiar number today that it may be hard to believe there was a time--hundreds of...
There's room for all in today's democracy of beauty. Carrying a shopping basket with the trademark Sephora squiggle, Elisa Lee totes around flame-colored nail-polish remover by Tony & Tina. The week before, she bought Decleor makeup remover. She confesses, "I like the instant-gratification thing."
A little history for the fashion deprived. In the beginning, there were a few industry giants like Lauder, Revlon and L'Oreal in a wasteland of dull, uniform colors. Then, in 1985, a Canadian makeup artist, Frank Toskan, exploded the spectrum with MAC, an edgy line that became such a...
Yet Mitchell has found the heart--and the laughs and the sexiness too--in a knockout follow-up to his career-making role two seasons ago as Coalhouse Walker in Ragtime. His crystal-clear baritone brings out all the graceful intricacy of Porter's lyrics, and he moves from Shakespearean...