Word: ushered
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...USHER has a confession to make: "Bobby Brown was my Michael Jackson." Steady there. What he means is that his childhood music hero was a guy who wore parachute pants. Wisely, Usher--or his handlers--hewed a little more classically when choosing icons for him to be photographed as for his March 5 Showtime special. Here the 26-year-old channels dapper Fred Astaire, "an elegant, graceful song-and-dance man," Usher says. He also donned Marvin Gaye's white cap--a sentimental favorite from "growing up hearing What's Going On at cookouts," he says--as well as wardrobes...
...election, for those who participated, was an unprecedented exercise in mass democracy, flawed as it was. But it will usher in a season of opaque horse-trading among Iraq's new political class, while those who overcame their fears to express their hopes at the ballot box anxiously await results. And the wildcard elements outside the Assembly - from the insurgency whose planners are no doubt simply waiting for the election-weekend ban on all vehicle traffic to be lifted in order to launch a new wave of car bombings, to the radical Shiite populist Moqtada Sadr who kept...
This is not how most people buy a house, largely because it is not the way the nation's dominant real estate firms, including Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA and ReMax, choose to do business. The big guys on the block prefer the old way: their agents usher clients door to door and show house after house. Frequently the houses are closely held listings on which the agents have exclusives, and they pocket a hefty 5%-to-7% commission on each sale. Today that clubby world is being shaken more and more by a handful of upstarts. Internet interlopers like...
...year-end press conference last month, Silvio Berlusconi was as ebullient as ever. The Italian Prime Minister predicted that after a "year of transition," 2005 would usher in the country's long-awaited economic turnaround. He was so confident, in fact, that you'd never know he'd just survived a year of crisis. Last June, with the economy sagging, voters gave him a bloody nose in European elections - his Forza Italia party collected just 21% of the vote. Soon after, Marco Follini, the wily Christian Democratic leader, threatened to withdraw his party from Berlusconi's coalition. Economy Minister Giulio...
...worst of all, boring--in Tolstoy's words, "All happy families are alike." We went from Wordsworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil. In the 20th century, classical music became more atonal, visual art more unsettling. Artists who focused on making their audiences feel good, from Usher to Thomas Kinkade, were labeled...