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...Disaster is also behind Total's ethical epiphany. In December 1999, when the oil tanker Erika sank off Brittany, spewing Total oil up and down the French Atlantic coast, French TV showed agonizing pictures of oil-drenched beaches and suffocating seabirds. For two long weeks, Total stood behind the thin excuse that the tanker did not belong to the company. "What we didn't know at the beginning was that we had a genuine catastrophe on our hands," said Thierry Desmarest, Total's chief executive, later. To re-establish credibility, Desmarest put in place a high-level team charged with...
...neighbor of Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the primal sitcom The Honeymooners, Carney proved that a second banana could be the top. His booming voice was complemented by a genius for body English. Carney's every move was an eccentric dance. He walked in a springy slouch, his thin frame forming a question mark, his gut preceding his chest by a beat or two. His hands were ever aflutter, shaking off invisible water (or sewage), conducting an imaginary silly symphony. While Ralph was the choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon. Like the Looney Tunes character Pepe...
...Next up is Al-Ferdan, whose wood-fire oven sports a copper plate with "In God We Trust" written above it in Arabic. The pizzas ($5, including a Coke) have thin crusts and fresh ingredients. "This is better," says Gbassage, who used to flip pizza dough at a Domino's in Stockton, California. Our Iraqi panel agrees. "The feeling in the mouth is good," says Qassim Wahim, 42, a clerk in the Ministry of Transport...
...appreciates the unadorned flavor. "I like it plain," he says, "but that might be because I have an ulcer." Next up is Al-Ferdan, whose wood-fire oven sports a copper plate with "In God We Trust" written above it in Arabic. The pizzas ($5, including a Coke) have thin crusts and fresh ingredients. "This is better," says Gbassage, who used to flip pizza dough at a Domino's in Stockton, California. Our Iraqi panel agrees. "The feeling in the mouth is good," says Qassim Wahim, 42, a clerk in the Ministry of Transport. Finally, there's the Pizzeria Napoli...
...another of cigarettes' metaphorical potencies. "Smo-kin'!" exclaims Jim Carrey's frenetic alter ego in "The Mask"; and we know he is referring to a different -king. Smoking is, at heart, oral gratification. There is, shall we say, a certain sexual implication in putting our lips around a long, thin object, ingesting its essence into the mouth, perhaps swallowing it, then expelling it. Put this way, the act of smoking is, literally, a blow job. And the ritual "smoke after sex" - is this not the reward for all the exertion of coupling? For some smokers, is getting down...