Word: ashtons
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Other panelists included Araz Azimov, a foreign affairs official from Azerbaijan; Ashton Carter, Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs at the Kennedy School; and Tim Cejka, vice president of Exploration for Exxon Venture, which explores opportunities for exploiting new oil resources in the former Soviet Union...
Unlike dancemakers who favor the hard-edged, stripped-down contemporary idiom that he crisply dismisses as "technoballet," Wheeldon is an unabashed classicist. His style, a bracingly confident fusion of George Balanchine's structural clarity with the sunny lyricism of Frederick Ashton, is respectful of tradition without stooping to imitation. He's also a sucker for tutus, toe shoes and moonlit pas de deux. "I don't have much angst in me," he says. "I love to be romantic...
...talking about the disappearance of a building in Oklahoma City but the disappearance of Oklahoma City," said Ashton B. Carter, Ford Foundation professor of science and international affairs...
...Ashton Robinson talks for a living--in infomercials, at seminars and on tapes that establish him as the biggest mouth in the self-help industry. But one day, while tripping out on weed and expired cough syrup, he is visited by a shape-shifting Brazilian midget who inspires him to found his own religion. The guru turns his California pad into a temple and teaches his followers to wear Gap clothing, bungee-jump and practice Tantric sex in preparation for their own "disappearance"--nirvana in Robinson's religion. The novel is a patchwork of clever ideas that never quite settle...
Daily Spin "Kids and dog for hire. Life term contract. Sad gits need not apply." Newspaper advertisement for new parents taken out by 10-year-old British twins Lauren and Ashton Mills, whose mother is dying of cancer...