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...STORES Outside, windows reflect a new mood, above; inside, it's a buyer's market as some chains quietly allow haggling, stores increase sale goods 15% and one Manhattan boutique offers free massage. Even chilly Bergdorf Goodman is playing to whim--and wallet--with free drinks, TVs airing sports and its first ever Santa Claus...
...totally converted domestic. I can see how the drudgery of a daily obligation to put food on the table for a family would chip away at even the most Martha-esque culinary good cheer. But my experience in meal preparation so far, limited to my own whim and the cushion of a meal plan in times of laziness, is the most unpredictably good thing in my life right now. I don’t really know what that means, but every time I use the word parboil in a conversation (more frequently than one might guess) I am pleasantly surprised...
...fascinating to see what others put, stuff I would never have chosen myself, like filling the bag with water, or Mighty Morphin Power Rangers underwear, for example. It was really interesting to see what other people found stimulating, like what they chose on a fancy almost, or a whim; it may have been just a momentary decision to put something...
...runs on children’s screams—and children are harder to scare than ever. Sulley’s scheming rival at the scream machine factory is the lizard-like Randall Boggs (appropriately voiced by Steve Buscemi), who has the convenient ability to become invisible at whim. Randall, who plans to revolutionize the scaring industry—think sadistic torture and a truly frightening “Scream Extractor”—is also consumed with jealousy for Sulley, the only one who stands between him and the Scarer of the Day title. Eventually Randall?...
...time being. "I don't know where I really live now," she says. But she has settled on a hair color. She was brunet; now that she's a budding North American star, she's blond. Shakira says her blondification was not a marketing move, merely a whim: "The color of my hair is a completely secondary consideration for me. Latin women are always making these little changes. My first choice was to be a redhead, but the color kept streaking at the beach. So I tried the Marilyn Monroe look...