Word: zero
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...youth - a craze that's paying handsomely for 19-year-old Lolita Pille. Her novel, Hell - a self-obsessed, semi-autobiographical gaze into the drug-sodden and libertine demimonde of rich Parisian adolescents - has been on the bestseller lists since May. Despite a literary merit Assouline puts at "zero," Hell sells, he says, "because there is a sizable market of teenagers who want to read a teenager writing about self-destructive teenagers. As in other businesses, publishers will use gadget-books and gadget-authors to satisfy demand." Happily, as Assouline notes, a boom in bottom-feeders and one-hit-wonders...
...moment the second tower collapsed, fire engines blared their horns as bells were rung at Ground Zero and across the city...
While the names were read, family members descended the ramp to the floor of Ground Zero for the first time, where they congregated around and laid flowers in a “circle of honor” at the center...
From every corner of Ground Zero, applause filled...
...crowd then applauded while the family members began to slowly and quietly file out of Ground Zero...