Public-service ads, a pamphlet featuring Michael Jordan, and bumper stickers that say "Don't take your organs to Heaven — Heaven knows we need them here" are all promoting an attitude about how, as Howard M. Nathan, the bearded, energetic forty-seven-year-old who heads Gift of Life, put it, "society should feel about this subject".
More interesting, however, is where Little World Gifts is headed next: Location-based gifting.
"This was a two-headed gift," said Neil Brown, a lawyer for the center.
At that point, nobody on the Golden State Warriors seemed overly excited about the idea of playing defense, and the Nets appeared headed for a gift-wrapped victory.
Backpackers chain-smoked in sidewalk cafes, meandered in and out of tourist gift shops, headed down to the Mekong to bargain for passage on rice boats.
Before he headed into the Intrepid gift shop and proceeded to spend $120 on assorted postcards, magnets, models and paperweights, Mr. Reubens said the challenge before him was not the Broadway show, but rather an unfamiliar world where people are genuinely delighted when they encounter him.
Father Liar!" As Maldonado ran toward the shoreline, yelling irately, the priest abruptly set down his gifts and headed back down the river.
With that in mind, I ventured downtown to the trendy meatpacking district with a list of whom to buy gifts for, headed by my two children, both with sophisticated tastes and studio apartments.
Henry accepted the gift, heading home from a yard to cancel out a first-half penalty from Nikica Jelavic.
So you head into the gift shop in acquisitional mood, only to be confronted by prints so glaring they make your eyes water: neon where it should be barely there, orange not copper.
Equipped with "A Taste of Heaven: A Guide to Food and Drink Made by Monks and Nuns," by Madeline Scherb, those tourists may head for the gift shops first, to stock up on the wines, spirits, beers, cheeses, condiments and sweets, often from centuries-old recipes, that are made at many monasteries.
