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...DIED. BARRY WHITE, 58, moody, mountainous singer known as the "Black Walrus of Love" whose libidinous baritone and concupiscent lyrics inspired ardor on divans and backseats through the 1970s; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. White took the bawdy jazz ballad and applied a lush varnish of soul to produce such hits as Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe and You're the First, the Last, My Everything. White was rediscovered by younger generations and in 2000 won his first two Grammys for the song Staying Power...
...steal the secret ingredients of an exquisite shade or the purple ooze of a rare sea snail or the red cochineal beetle that feeds off cactus. She traces why red ocher is sacred among Australian Aborigines, then jumps over to Renaissance Italy to muse on the unique blood-orange varnish that Stradivarius used to anoint his violins. Along the way, we learn that NapolEon could have died of arsenic poisoning from green wallpaper then in vogue. We are also taught that bureaucratic red tape comes from ribbons dipped in a safflower-red dye that were used to tie bundles...
While Cheney maintains that the privacy of those documents must be protected to ensure that the administration receives “unvarnished advice” from energy execs, their self-interest in energy policy gives that advice an unacceptable varnish from the start. Bush’s evasiveness only makes it seem as if he has something to hide...
...Chuck Houghton who took me out the other day. A couple of years ago, I went through his factory and drooled a bit over the sleek Edwardian numbers, which have fiberglass hulls but are fitted out with the varnish and brass of the loveliest wooden boats. The boat we had on the river the other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes...
Over 600 people in my M.B.A. class have just finished a two-and-a-half day "academic immersion" program that purports to varnish us with an understanding of how business interacts with government and civil society. It is called "Society and Enterprise" (S&E), and it seems designed as a ridiculous token effort to convince students that there exists a higher calling than the profit motive...