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...NUDE AMBER Who'da thunk it? Tom Ford has teamed up with Estée Lauder. The result is a collection of lipsticks, bronzers, eye lacquers and a fragrance called Youth Dew Amber Nude, with hints of jasmine, grapefruit, ginger and, yes, amber...
...Attention...GO.†Instead of the normal SWOOSH of eight blades releasing and the smooth hum of the slides working quickly back up the tracks, I heard a distinct CRASH and then a THUNK. From that sound, I knew, instinctively, that the race was over. There is no breakage rule at Henley. In domestic regattas, if something breaks within the first 150 meters, the race is restarted. Not so across the pond. If anything goes wrong, as it did, our regatta is over...
...play a role--than tires hitting pavement. Pliable rubber making contact with asphalt doesn't seem as if it would produce a lot of noise but in fact it does, and in a lot of ways. As any spot on the tire strikes the highway, it hits with the thunk of a little rubber hammer. Also, the patch of tire that's in contact with the ground at any instant--the so-called tread block--can squeak like a sneaker on a gym floor and pop like a suction cup when it pulls back off the surface. Air pumping through...
What single issue proved the most politically deadly in this campaign? A bill to create a Department of Homeland Security. Who'd have thunk it? It had the appearance of mere bureaucratic shuffling. It had none of the drama of the war-and-peace Iraq vote. Democrats figured they could safely block the bill over a dispute about job protection. Big mistake. Republicans made the issue into a surrogate for post-9/11 national security. Everyone supports the war on terror. The homeland-security bill, however, made the platitude concrete by asking the question: Are you ready to put antiterrorism...
Meet the Press? Who'd have thunk it? There she was, the first First Lady to mix it up with Tim Russert, not to mention with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, over whether the President was put on earth to lead us after 9/11 (intermittently Rudy's Catholic view of his mayorship) or whether God is less specific (her modest Methodist take). The least ambitious First Lady in recent memory, save perhaps Mamie Eisenhower, Mrs. Bush recalls the pact she made upon her engagement: she would join her husband on his daily jogs; he would never ask her to give a speech...