Word: bridal
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...modern bride has much on her mind that her forebears didn't: maintaining her bridal website, dealing with blended families and getting the HIV tests done, for starters. But perhaps nothing is more laborious than sorting through all those heavy bridal magazines. Just in time for spring, two newcomers have entered the crowded wedding party, Elle's Ultimate Weddings and a newly relaunched Elegant Bride. Both promise a more intelligent, stylish take on the nuptial rites than the phone book-size old faithfuls. Almost any approach seems to work, however. Even in an ad recession, the bridal mags are thriving...
...Often he showed his collegiality the best way he knew, by writing in the style of other composers' work. As a bon-voyage gift to Cole Porter before a 1935 sailing, Berlin roguishly parodied Porter's recent hit "You're the Top: "You're the burning heat/ Of a bridal suite/ In use,/ You're the breasts of Venus/ You're King Kong's penis/ You're self-abuse!" In 1948, for a Bob Hope Christmas tour in support of the Berlin airlift, he adapted the Ralph Rainger-Leo Robin "Thanks for the Memory." The bridge went: "Thanks...
Clad in a floor-length white bridal gown and sweeping tulle veil and posed in front of Au Bon Pain, Amanda Palmer is one of the most visible performers. She stands frozen, one hand outstretched for donations, which she exchanges for paper flowers...
...found the bridal gown at the Garment District—and Harvard Square’s first living statue was born...
...commerce sites routinely share your information, or sell it. The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a campaign in early June against Macys.com for giving away info from its bridal registry to its business partners. Amazon, which once permitted users to choose to keep their data confidential, rewrote its privacy policy last year to say customer data are an "asset" it may sell or transfer in the future. If an e-commerce site you bought from goes bankrupt, it could be legally required to sell your data to the highest bidder. And sites routinely sell or exchange your personal information. Privacy advocates...