Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Murphy said that no particular event prompted his decision to step down as dean...
...hurts even more now. As overall forecasts for e-tailing turn bleak, beauty sites in particular are struggling. According to NPD BeautyTrends, out of some 300 cosmetics, fragrance and bath-and-body sites that were on the Web last fall, only 100 remain. Among the consolidations and casualties: Beauty.com which sold to Drugstore.com just two months after its launch; fragrance site Jasmin.com which was inhaled by luxury site Ashford.com and Beautyscene.com which sold to private investors in a fire sale after its finances got ugly...
Many ravers are wary and weary of the media's embrace. In particular, many believe that the press is more interested in writing about drugs than about the music--and that the press coverage is partly to blame for the supposed ecstasy boom. Says Jon Reiss, director of Better Living Through Circuitry: "The media hype says if you want to do drugs, come to these parties. So all these kids come to the parties looking for drugs. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...modernism overthrew, along with plenty of samples of modernism itself. It is, for this reason, fascinating. It is also unmethodical, a show with no ideology of taste. It will therefore be hated by all those who believe in the founding mission of the Guggenheim: to establish modernism, and in particular abstract art, as the ultimate and spiritually obligatory art of the 20th century, to render monumental the gap between past and present...
...real John Wayne toiled through his early years. It's the kind of place where the subsidiary gunmen have no real motives--other than bad breeding--for their depredations, where barroom brawls blow up for no good reason and where plains, mountains and deserts are mixed without any particular geo-logic. This, of course, frees the director, Tom Dey, to play fast and loose with other kinds of logic. In his West, horses sit down when you need them to be up and doing, Indian princesses are as sportively knowing as any of the gals in Sex and the City...