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...corporate boss can tell you, headquarters tends to get all the bells and whistles. In kitchen appliances, overkill isn't over. The trend toward commercial stoves and refrigerators, such as those by Viking and Wolf and Sub-Zero, has been reinforced by the shift of such traditional makers as Whirlpool, Maytag, GE and Amana into professional-quality gear and by a changed appearance in the everyday American kitchen. "Everyone is striving for a commercial look," says Tommy Genussa, president of TAG Homes Inc. in New Orleans. "That means stainless-steel appliances. Even in modest homes, the movement is toward...
What's driving the shift? Over the past year, electronic payment got a boost when the anthrax attacks elevated fear of using the mail, says Bill Nelson of the Electronic Payments Association. The hike in postal rates also hurt snail mail...
Kulash’s eyes shift to the side as he responds; the last question was too leading and he’s not happy about it. Returning to safer territory, he speaks about the band’s association with the ’80s revival of recent months. “I’m fine with that. We’re not a very retro band. I don’t think we really sound like ’80s music. I think the thing is that rock that’s been on the radio...
Ristelhueber has not always been an artist, having first taken a master's degree in literature, and not producing any visual art until 1980, when she was already past the age of 30. Her shift towards the visual is significant, for it underlines an important aspect of her artistic philosophy. She abandoned literature in favor of visual art because she believed that "there is no greater reason to make art than to explore the world as it is", and that, by extension, a literary description could not possibly express the nature of a physical image as well as a visual...
...Everybody noticed,” she says, relaxing with a cigarette on the patio after her shift. While other women have been hired since, Follen is currently Pamplona’s only female waiter...