Word: voil
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...butter-covered face and a smile full of niblets? Kuhn Rikon's Corn Zipper, which resembles a happy metallic stingray, allows you to strip kernels from raw or cooked ears without chopping off a finger. Holding the gadget in one hand, simply rub it down the ear and - voilà! - corn off the cob. kuhnrikon.com Have s'more Campfire lovers can swap their whittled marshmallow sticks for Hammacher Schlemmer's Marshmallow Rotisserie. This rotating trident cooks the s'mores staples evenly. The handle is heat-resistant and the stainless-steel tines clean up easily. hammacher.com...
Take the paintings of one popular artist (preferably, but not necessarily, Pablo Picasso). Juxtapose them with the works of another genius. Compare, contrast and voilà: You have a blockbuster exhibition guaranteed to bring in the crowds. The phenomenal success of the three-city "Matisse Picasso" show in 2002-03 helped inspire the thoughtful "Picasso Ingres" exhibit in Paris last year. Now there's the traveling "Turner, Whistler, Monet" exhibit currently at London's Tate Britain. This is the golden age of spot-the-influence shows. Some museumgoers see them as a two- or three-for-one bonus, others...
...voilá: merde - an outcome that co-opts even the bluntest judgment about contemporary art. "We spend all this love, all this money and manpower," says Delvoye with anarchic glee, "and we get something everybody flushed away this morning." He has had to turn down several requests from science museums that just don't get it: Cloaca isn't meant as a didactic take on the human digestive tract. He insists it is a highly pungent comment on the folly of human achievement. Or as New York art critic Adrian Dannatt puts it, "a reductio ad absurdum of Freud...
...Voil. Sleep, drink and be merry. Laugh at seniors with later deadlines. Add a spring to your step, plan a luxurious spring break and write a column to help out future thesis-writers...
...Even a brazen attempt to locate a Gen-X or ?Y pulse on the site was crushed: Enter "young voters" in the Bush/Cheney search engine and voilà! A long list of stories appears, ostensibly geared toward young people. Flipping through the results makes you wonder about who's in charge over in Bush's cyber-land: The top story details Bush's visit to a Pittsburgh veterans' event, where the governor paid special tribute to Congressional Medal of Honor winners. Math is not my strong point, but I'm willing to bet none of those vets were under...