But after a week of living in a four-room apartment with two strange males, she is neither but she is something much better.
What we, his inheritors, got is something much better, and more useful: an indispensable guide (explanation, clarification, commentary, glossary, lexicon) to the mysteries (form, order, practice, functioning, performance) of a language now used more widely across the world (earth, planet, geosphere, sphere, home of man) than any other.
But William De Lottie's "Love Letters Straight From Your Heart, Part 1" is something much better: several rectangular aluminum panels wrapped in bright polka-dot and flower-patterned cloth, the panels affixed to the ends of long metal poles, which protrude several feet from a wall.
It was never easy, but it's been something much better — it's been miraculous.
It is something much, much better.
When the pot's contraband, smokers usually only worry about getting high, and while getting high is the shit, there is something much more involved, and even better, happening here in California.
For all the theoretical talk of "broken windows" and "zero tolerance" policing that has dominated the public discourse on crime during the past decade, research published this year suggests that the most significant factor in keeping the homicide rate down is something much more practical: faster ambulances and better care in the emergency room.
"We're not expecting the numbers from Super Tuesday but we're expecting something much better than normal," John Spiropoulos, vice president and group research director at MediaVest, tells Media Life Magazine.
