Perfect Blue

Invention of Culture, concerned as it is with the relation of these forms to convention, thus becomes the middle term of an unintended trilogy. My use of the term "invention" here is, I think, much more traditional than contemporary "bolt-from-the-blue" stereotypes of lucky cavemen and accidental discoveries. Like invention in music, it refers to a positive and expected component of human life. The term seems "to have retained much of this same sense from the time of the Roman rhetoricians through

le traite comme un moins que rien, l’insulte, le rejette. Soudain la porte s’ouvre et entre Depardieu, massif et efféminé à la fois. Quasiment sans dire un mot, il balance une gifle monumentale à Miou-Miou qui valdingue dans les tables. Au début de Blue Velvet de David Lynch, une charmante petite ville des États-Unis nous est présentée : Lumberton. Il y fait beau, les pompiers sont souriants, les enfants traversent en sécurité, les femmes regardent la télévision et les hommes arrosent leurs jardins

99-105, above. The consistency principle also calls for maintaining parallel sentence or paragraph structure for substantively comparable provisions. As shown in several of the examples on page 174, it facilitates extrapolation, which, too, helps to perfect substantive policy. H. W. FOWLER, MODERN ENGLISH USAGE, pp. 130-131' Oxford University Press, 1952. ELEGANT VARIATION. It is the second-rate writers, those intent rather on expressing themselves prettily than on conveying their mean­ ing clearly

blossom (to) v. t. (bot.), être en bouton, être en fleur blossoming n. (bot.), floraison f. blow hole n. (métal.), bulle f. (défaut dans un métal ou un alliage) blower n. (instr.), ventilateur m., soufflant m. blubber n. (zoo.), graisse f. de baleine blue adj., bleu, ~ vitriol (chim.), sulfate de cuivre (bleu) blueing n. (métal.), bleuissage m. (traitement thermique de l’acier) blueshift n. (astro.), décalage m. vers le bleu (effet Doppler) bluish adj., bleuâtre, ~ green, vert bleuté, ~ white, blanc

blossom (to) v. t. (bot.), être en bouton, être en fleur blossoming n. (bot.), floraison f. blow hole n. (métal.), bulle f. (défaut dans un métal ou un alliage) blower n. (instr.), ventilateur m., soufflant m. blubber n. (zoo.), graisse f. de baleine blue adj., bleu, ~ vitriol (chim.), sulfate de cuivre (bleu) blueing n. (métal.), bleuissage m. (traitement thermique de l’acier) blueshift n. (astro.), décalage m. vers le bleu (effet Doppler) bluish adj., bleuâtre, ~ green, vert bleuté, ~ white, blanc

addition to showing the terrain, the have ten seconds to get back into the gray or you will be killed by enemy artillery. minimap also shows the location of all detected enemies as red triangles or red vehicle icons. Friendly units are displayed in blue and empty vehicles are represented by white icons. It is a good idea to constantly refer to the minimap to keep track of enemies. Even if you can’t see them visually, the minimap lets you know where they are located, whether behind a hill or inside

strange and ominous character. As the coach speeds along, dogs howl, and the horses rear up in fright. The driver seems to have an extraordinary power over the animals as he soothes them several times along the way. Wolves howl in the distance, and weird blue flames flicker along the road. The driver dismounts and disappears into the darkness. In his absence, the wolves surround the coach, and Harker fears for his life. Suddenly, the driver reappears and miraculously commands the wolves to disperse. Although

household cleaners, so the exact size of the market for sustainable home accessories is not yet discernable. However, GFK Roper, in its 2007 Green Gauge Survey, reports that the consumer segment it describes as the most environmentally aware (“true blue greens”) is not only the largest segment at 30 percent, but also the fastest-growing. Having conducted the survey since 1992, Roper further notes that the segment least concerned about the environment (“apathetics”) has exhibited the greatest decline

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 Index 467 About the Author Joseph Schmuller, a veteran of over 20 years in Information Technology, is a Technical Architect with Blue Cross–Blue Shield of Florida. From 1991 through 1997, he was Editor in Chief of PC AI Magazine. He has written numerous articles and reviews on advanced computing technology and is the author of ActiveX No experience required and Dynamic HTML Master the

the contents that were of interest to the poor devils who had stolen them from the abandoned plant, but the containers. After emptying them out onto the ground or into the waters of the rivers and after diligently rinsing them, these characteristic blue plastic barrels were used for all sorts of purposes and can been seen inside and outside shacks as containers for water, oil and tomatoes. Other containers were used for transporting milk that, fresh and radioactive, spread the contamination to other