Word: potpourris
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Without the sense that I’m investigating to any purpose, I pad from room to room in my bare feet, watching out for broken glass. There’s some vomit in the sink in the main bathroom next to the living room, and a bowl of potpourri spilled into the toilet, floating like rose petals in a duck pond. The shower is running and there are three pairs of sopping pants tangled on the tiled floor. I turn it off, half-thinking I’d actually like to get under the water, but traipsing...
...trying. The offer of numerous varieties of flowers certainly doesn’t work. By the end of the video the ground is littered with the torn up remains of various bouquets. That’s very sad, but look on the bright side: now they can make potpourri! Just as ineffective is their banging on the door. This isn’t just any banging; at one point the drummer actually gets his sticks out and hits them against the door. Go ahead and insert a joke here about music breaking down doors. Having failed to get into...
...spokeswoman Linda Douglass. "Whether at the swearing-in ceremony or the national prayer service or the prayer on the Mall, there are several places where you will hear from all walks of the faith community." The national prayer service that will be held on Wednesday does indeed offer a potpourri of religious diversity, including three rabbis - one each from the reform, conservative and orthodox traditions - as well as Muslim, Greek Orthodox, Hindu and Catholic clergy...
...mention. There’s the rise of click-happy fans whose fingers linger over the advance buttons of their ipods, the death of hard-and-fast genres, and the increasingly abbreviated nature of the musical product, from albums, to singles, to ringtones, to Girl Talk’s potpourri of 30-second hooks. Whether Gillis’s latest album (or any of his albums) is truly new and meaningful or just a well-mixed iTunes party shuffle will likely remain a topic of some hipster debate. Harvard students will have the opportunity to udge for themselves when Girl...
FOUR: SLOW INNOVATION The mobile carriers have maintained unchallenged dominance over their markets - and their customers. That's allowed them to preserve their potpourri of fees and to go slow on innovation, thus the stale approach to voice-mail and other services. Google recently proposed an auction system that would enable new players to buy into the wireless spectrum, an idea that could open the door to the sort of competition in the mobile world that enabled the high-speed access offered by better Internet Service Providers to topple AOL's old stranglehold on its customers. The carriers argue that...