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The barons of high-tech like to think of themselves as very different creatures from the barons of Wall Street. They create cool devices that let us carry the world in our pockets. They wear hoodies, not suits. And they owe their success to their native genius rather than to social connections. But for many people in San Francisco this is a distinction without a difference http://econ.st/1l5p3Oj
Zipper up.
That's what a number of designers hope shoppers
will be doing in the coming seasons. Designer labels, including
Altuzarra, Calvin Klein Collection, Dior, Elie Tahari, Giambattista
Valli, Michael Kors and the Row are putting bold and exposed zippers on
sweaters, dresses and blazers, turning the typically utilitarian closure
into an attention-grabbing design detail.
Zippers are even
being used to identify the looks. Michael Kors showed a neon orange "zip
suit," and a black and white Donegal, jacquard "zipper suit," among
other looks prominently featuring zippers, in his fall 2013 runway show
in February.
Be sure to zip
your smartphone in your ski jacket; it can help you navigate a resort,
prepare for the weather and even become a better skier.
The job of corporate hell-raiser strikes me as much more
worthwhile than the more common retirement route of joining a
government taskforce and keeping lips zipped tighter than ever.
Should Facebook founder wear hooded top to meetings?
France struggled to digest the scandal around Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with his defenders questioning the initial New York police account and speculating about entrapment.
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other
garment; also, a young person wearing such as garment, esp. regarded as
being potentially violent, criminal, or otherwise antisocial. (1990 —) .
Daily Telegraph Members of this demographic
wear the dodginess of their surroundings as a badge of honour on their
Marks & Spencer hoodies (2005). Observer Until recently, Cameron wanted to hug hoodies; now he wants to string 'em up (2007).
[From hood noun + -ie.]
entrap
[intrǽp]
[動]（〜ped, 〜・ping）(他)((しばしば受身))((形式))
1 〈動物を〉わなにかける, わなで捕える.
2 〈人を〉（危険・困難に）陥れる((in, into ...))；〈人を〉だまして［計略にかけて］（…）させる((into doing))
entrap a person into committing a crime
うまく計って人に罪を犯させる.
A hoodie (or hoody), short for "hooded sweatshirt", or a "bunnyhug" is a heavy upper-body garment with a hood. The characteristic design includes large frontal pockets, a hood, and (usually) a drawstring to adjust the hood opening. Hoodies with zippers are called "zip hoodies" or "zip-ups".[citation needed] It is also a metonym, referring to a sector of youth culture in the UK.[1]
Spotlight:
Zzzzip!
Who invented the zipper? Early in the 20th century, an engineer named Gideon Sundback built upon previous inventions to develop a better fastener. The "Hookless No. 2" was a series of interlocking teeth in which where the tiny projection at the top fit into the dimple at the bottom as a slider traveled up the row. On April 29, 1917, Sundback received a patent for the "separable fastener," which would come to be known as the zipper. Soldiers fighting in World War I used the first zippers, mostly for money belts, life vests and flying suits. The B.F. Goodrich Company incorporated the new fastener into rubber boots and gave them the name "zipper," which was originally intended to indicate the kind of boot. It was in the 1940s that the zipper became more popularly used for the flies of pants and on skirts and dresses.
Quote:
"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour." — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Water Willow, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. 1871. A portrait of Jane Morris with Kelmscott Manor in the upper left background.
William Morris, the owner of Kelmscott Manor, by letter (c. 1871) to Edward Burne-Jones, describes Kelmscott as: “a beautiful and strangely naif house, Elizabethan in appearance though much later in date, as in that out of the way corner people built Gothic til the beginning or middle of last century.”
Memorials of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, v.2
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES is here published together with Darwin’s earlier THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. This 1839 account of the journeys to South America and the Pacific islands that first put Darwin on the track of his remarkable theories derives an added charm from his vivid description of his travels in exotic places and his eye for the piquant detail. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-origin-of-species…/
Two years after admitting to accounting fraud, Olympus, the camera manufacturer, hired its cafeteria operator to handle a dispute with Chinese customs authorities. Soon after, the case was inexplicably dropped.
In praise of … old dictionaries The Guardian (blog)
But what about old dictionaries? Shelved in some dusty corner of the library, they suffer near-universal neglect. Yet antique dictionaries contain a piquant history. The word homosexual doesn't exist in a 1925 English dictionary. By 1962 it's an ...
such a piquancy or ironic,
Warren E. Buffett, known for piquant and unsparing criticism of his own performance, has been uncharacteristically silent on the ratings agencies, including Moody's, in which he owns a minority stake.
You can’t get better publicity for a book than “Banned in Boston.” But as product endorsements go, “Banned in China” sends a more mixed message, even if it still wins points for piquancy. Seeing this legend on the dust jacket of Yan Lianke’s faux-naif novel, “Serve the People!” — the first of his books to be translated into English — you have to wonder what Chinese officials are banning books for these days.
閻連科:《為人民服務》
Set in 1967, near the outset of the Cultural Revolution and at the height of the Maoist cult of personality, “Serve the People!” tells the story of a docile, doctrinaire peasant soldier named Wu Dawang, whose word-perfect memory of Mao’s sayings (coupled with his excellent kitchen skills) leads to a plum job: cook and general orderly for the commander of his military division.
Wu Dawang, Sergeant of the Catering Squad, now General Orderly for the Division Commander and his wife, stood in the doorway to the kitchen, a bunch of pak-choi in hand, acknowledging a devastating new presence in the room.
But businesses still cater to the poor, and do not want to lose customers, even poor ones. And the poorest participants in a market society have more influence over what they receive as consumers than they do as voters.
Verizon Wireless plans to talk to different hardware manufacturers and the carrier didn't discuss potential pricing plans for the new devices. On the software side, Mr. McAdam said the new model will be "additive" to its current service, and that it will cater to subscribers looking for complete control of their device. "We see an opportunity to tap into a huge development community," Mr. McAdam said.
Industry Caters to Eating at the Wheel 業者滿足開車時用膳的需求
Scores of new automotive Web sites are being launched that cater to car enthusiasts, demonstrating that Americans' love affair with cars is alive and well..
A fight between the Rose Group and its Park Avenue neighbors over a special exemption for a liquor license has reached the office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
新聞辭典
cater to sb/sthphrasal verb to try to satisfy a need, especially an unpopular or generally unacceptable need: This legislation simply caters to racism.
cater to：迎合、滿足。例句：Those newspapers cater to the lowest tastes.（那些報紙迎合最下層的趣味。）
cater verb[I or T] to provide, and sometimes serve, food: I'm catering for twelve on Sunday, all the family are coming. Which firm will be catering at the wedding reception? US Who catered your party?
catering adjective[before noun] a high-class catering company
━━ vi. 料理などを調達する, まかなう ((for, at, 〈米〉to)); 娯楽を提供する ((〈英〉for, 〈米〉to)).
━━ vt. （宴会等の）準備を引き受ける. ca・ter・er ━━ n. （宴会などの）仕出し業者; 飲食［喫茶］店の支配人. ca・ter・ing ━━ n. 仕出し（屋）, 配膳業.
cater for sb/sthphrasal verbMAINLY UK to provide what is wanted or needed by someone or something: The club caters for children between the ages of 4 and 12.
or・der・ly
━━ a., n. きちんとした; 秩序をよく守る; 従順な; 行儀のいい; 【軍】伝令［当直］の; 当番兵; 伝令（兵）; 病院の雑役夫. or・der・li・nessn. orderly officer 当直将校. orderly room 【軍】（兵舎内の）中隊事務室.
having a pleasantly sharp taste or appetizing flavour:a piquant tartare sauce
pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind.
Derivatives
piquantly
adverb
pi·quant(pē'kənt, -känt', pē-känt') adj.
Pleasantly pungent or tart in taste; spicy.
Appealingly provocative: a piquant wit.
Charming, interesting, or attractive: a piquant face.
Archaic. Causing hurt feelings; stinging.
[French, from Old French, present participle of piquer, to prick. See pique.]
piquancypi'quan·cy or pi'quant·nessn. piquantlypi'quant·lyadv.piquant(INTERESTING) adjectiveSLIGHTLY FORMAL interesting and exciting, especially because mysterious: More piquant details of their private life were revealed.
piquancy noun[U]SLIGHTLY FORMAL ━━ a. ぴりっとする; きびきびした, すきっとして魅力的な. pi・quan・cy ━━ n. ぴりっとしたうまさ; 辛辣さ, 小気味よさ.
unsparing(HIDING NOTHING) adjective showing no kindness and no desire to hide the unpleasant truth: The documentary went through all the graphic details of the operation in unsparing detail.
unsparing(GENEROUS) adjectiveFORMAL extremely generous with money, time, help, etc: Last of all, our thanks go to the caterers who have been unsparing in their efforts to make this afternoon such a success.
cater v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. v.intr.
To provide food or entertainment.
To be particularly attentive or solicitous; minister: The nurses catered to my every need. The legislation catered to various special interest groups.
v.tr.
To provide food service for: a business that caters banquets and weddings.
To attend to the wants or needs of.
[From obsolete cater, a buyer of provisions, from Middle English catour, short for acatour, from Norman French, from acater, to buy, from Vulgar Latin *accaptāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin captāre, to chase; see catch.]
catererca'ter·ern.
naïf
/nʌɪˈiːf,nɑːˈiːf/
adjective
1.
naive or ingenuous.
noun
1.
a naive or ingenuous person.
faux-naïf
(fō-nä-ēf')
also faux-naifadj.
Marked by a false show of innocent simplicity: “Their gee-whiz, faux-naif comportment is not always convincing” (Madison Smartt Bell).
A filter bubble – a term coined by Internet activist Eli Pariser – is a state of intellectual isolation that allegedly can result from personalized searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user, such as location, past click-behavior ...
ca・ter・er
or・der・ly
