The world's biggest diamond producer, De Beers, said its 2001 profit had cleaved in half as the global economic downturn struck diamond sales; however, it said the market started 2002 in a flashier mood.
But though the appearance had all the star quality a five-minute first pitch on ESPN could possibly hope for, the effect was both upsetting to some and to all in stark contrast with the flashy style and celebratory mood that accompanied the rest of the team's Opening Day ceremonies.
A photograph called "Burning Bush," made the year he met Stieglitz, is typical of White in its apocalyptic mood and its flashy use of light and shadow.
None of the anchors particularly matched the mood of the show's flashy new set, which seems designed to look like a downtown loft or an uptown law firm hoping to look hip: lots of glass walls and bookshelves lining an exposed brick backdrop.
And then after that, which was so simple and slow paced, I felt in the mood to do this kind of gaudy, flashy, faster-paced one.
In this quiet tense drama, her work is far from flashy but it has an enjoyable soupcon of showboating that lightens the mood nicely.
Bissière was a painter of mood and internal reflection who as he matured abhorred "the Paris scene" and flashy gallery marketing.
I'm not going to intrude on this cheerful mood by the painstaking measuring required for elaborate cocktails – I'll leave all that careful "building" and flashy shaker-juggling to Tom Cruise.
