The last show of 16 works ("outfits" is too meager a word) completed by the designer before his suicide last month was held in a gilded salon at the 18th-century H? de Clermont-Tonnerre for small groups of 20 people, who perched on boxes covered in gold leaf, as an aria by the histrionic German coloratura soprano, Simone Kermes, filled the bright but somber room.
A meager 500 words and I still found myself in the same high-alert mode that our ancestors faced when fending off beasts or scavenging for nourishment.
[1] Some may quibble with our use of the word "meager" here to refer to a correlation of.30.
That meager collection of words -- about one-third the length of this column -- constituted the entire trial file for a death penalty case.
In most of the cities on the list, however, the population has shrunk, or grown only by meager percentages, suggesting that word about the quality of life there hasn't yet gotten out.
Here is where the husband of Ray Eddy Melissa Leoo), the hard-bitten mother of two sons, 15-year-old T. J. (Charlie McDermott) and 5-year-old Ricky James Reillyy), gambled away the family's meager savings before deserting them, leaving no word.
Whatever meaning the word itself is covering, like underwear, that meaning is so mere and meager this morning.
In other words the maximum sentence for human smuggling would go from a meager one year in jail to the still unacceptable five years in prison.
No word about what happens when workers are no longer entry level but still earning those meager wages, or when those ultra-low earnings simply leave families eking out an existence just above the poverty line.
While it is true that I use my iMac only for word processing, and that computers made in 1996 would be more than adequate for my meager needs, there is no Apple upgrade that I will not embrace joyously.
