Word: whims
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...According to Eirich, Averell decided to audition for “The Amazing Race” on a whim, sending in videotapes of himself and MacNiven doing odd tasks and talking about themselves. Last July, he got an interview with the producers, and by the fall, he was off to Denver to begin the race...
...thinking “Man, I would like to know the stories behind some of those”? Well, I can tell you…no, you really don’t. Most of them don’t make any sense. People will decide completely on a whim to call me something—it’s just feels appropriate. “Tooth” has absolutely nothing to do with my teeth, or with anything else for that matter, though being my sport’s nickname from high school—and the sport?...
...have a mainly-female Facebook group devoted to you. Were you aware of this?GT: No.THC: Do you know what the Facebook is?GT: No.THC: But, back to the hair care question, do you have a specific haircut that you request? Or is it sort of the whim of the barber?GT: That’s the most important thing, it seems to me, for men. For women, it’s a lot more complicated isn’t it? But for men it’s to get a good cut. Short on the sides, long...
When TV shows become something you order at whim from a cable box, or take on a plane, or carry in your pocket, what is TV? What is a network? After all, the networks, with their vast mid-century distribution systems, are in essence simply conduits for delivering programming from producers to viewers. Could the nets end up making their brands irrelevant? McPherson doubts it. "Whenever you're looking at airing your content in new places, you have to first consider the mother ship, which is the network," he says. Yes, but a mother ship can be part...
...look more different from six years ago, when he took a blind leap and joined the company. After his studies in Delhi in the early 1990s, and business school, he worked at Bank of America and British Gas before heading to Mexico for a change of scenery. On a whim, he e-mailed his former college friend Dikshit, who, it turned out, had just set up a software company and was trying to develop a gaming start-up for Parasol, a lawyer by training. Parasol's history has filled the pages of British tabloid newspapers this year largely because...