In front of the sacred tree, dozens of supplicants — parents and students alike — lit their last bundles of "champion's incense" and turned the pile of ash into an inferno that would continue to burn through the night.
"I have all these young Wall Street types lighting fires in TriBeCa and Battery Park City," he said, maintaining that this is clearly not the crowd buying a last-minute bundle of wood at the deli.
The "pay what you want" model is in the process of proving itself, but I think it's an easy way to recoup potential losses to piracy, though of course the last bundle was also pirated many thousands of times.
FIFO drops the bundle at the head of the queue and forwards the last bundle that has arrived.
Better yet, order them in advance so you don't have to fight like a junkyard dog for the last $25 bundle of hydrangeas at Whole Foods.
(At the last moment, a bundle of rags was tossed out instead).
The idea was to empty the shelves by closing time on Saturday: in fact with 24 hours to go, the last sad bundle of self-help and practical mechanics books was stamped out.
The Blues, winners of the trophy four times in the last seven seasons, wasted a bundle of chances and hit the post twice in a one-sided cup tie.
Then you have to take it all off again: the gown is untied and peeled over the gloves, which go off last, optimally sequestered in a bundle of contaminated surfaces all facing inward.
Lady Bird, rushed along right behind him by her own cordon of agents, had seen, in "one last look over my shoulder," "a bundle of pink, just like a drift of blossoms, lying on the back seat.
Network was a bundle of contradictions, the last gasp of an era of populist Hollywood filmmaking as expressed by a man who never subscribed to the movement; it used the resources of one mass medium to indict another and, beyond it, the degradation and emptiness of contemporary American life.
