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...company, which her father bought in 1963 from Paul-Andre Chopard, a descendant of the founder, Louis-Ulysse Chopard, she has been looking for ways to expand the brand beyond its watchmaking roots. In 1976 she came up with the concept of Happy Diamonds, now a company signature, wherein 30 diamonds float inside a man's watch. It was a huge hit and an opening to the bigger market of fine jewelry. "My father collected clowns, so I designed one with Happy Diamonds in the stomach, and that was the beginning of our jewelry," she says...
...answers to those questions are elusive. The literarily inclined might date the beginnings of the change all the way back to Sinclair Lewis and Main Street. The aging moviegoer might cite King's Row, wherein cheerful Ronald Reagan lost his legs to a sadistic doctor. Me, I'd probably pick something like Boys Don't Cry, for which Hillary Swank won her first Oscar playing out a transgender tragedy on the flat and (as the camera saw them) fallow plains of Nebraska...
...supposed to be mourning the death of humanity, but it's damned hard. He's playing golf and driving a sports car. He's picking corn and hunting deer?he's eating locally! The apocalypse is an epic tragedy, but it's also a fantasy of cleansing and regeneration wherein everything inessential and inauthentic is swept away so that we can build afresh among the ruins. It's a convenient untruth. "I've been struck by the number of New Yorkers who have actually said to me, 'God, it was so much fun watching the city fall apart like that...
...would add a course that I would teach, called “How to give me $100,000,” wherein each student would learn how to deposit $100,000 into my personal account. This course will prepare young undergrads for a long career of giving me money throughout their futures. Space is limited to 40 million students. Extra credit can be obtained by giving me $200,000 and some ice cream. I will offer a second year course called “How to blow people...
...solidarity around core teachings together with friendly address to Christians and respect for the public good as a whole." The letter ends with a quote from the Koran - "Vie one with another in good works ... Unto God ye will all return, and He will then inform you of that wherein ye differ" - before making a final plea for peace: "So let our differences not cause hatred and strife between us. Let us vie with each other only in righteousness and good works." Surely that's a sentiment people of all faiths can share...