Who would have thought the ultimate three-girls-in-the-city flick would premiere not in the flapper-fast 20s, the satin-slouch 30s, or the shoulder-pad 40s, but in the white-glove, bullet-bra 50s? In 1959, with considerable fanfare, Twentieth Century Fox premiered The Best of Everything, a title it took seriously. The movie was in CinemaScope, of course, as were all major Fox films after 1953, and the color was by DeLuxe. Indeed, "deluxe" was the operative word ...

Where some moviegoers might have seen relentless ugliness, I saw a profound beauty.

Cisco's proven competence in networking makes it our partner of choice."

Young people sought Elvis's cafe as refuge from the relentless ugliness that pervaded most public gathering places.

“Finalizing a new partner would be my first priority as the new CEO,“ Singh said. “I intend to establish GE Money as the partner of choice to both consumers and business partners.”

The relentless ugliness of the industrial age, the telegraph wires and smokestacks and steel trusswork, unnerved him. How could he be true to the contemporary world without allowing its mess and banality to infect his art?

Telecom Egypt has a decades-long tradition of being the partner of choice to all Asia-Europe submarine cable systems, by providing the infrastructure for crossing from Red to Mediterranean Seas.

He was a relentless boozer, a sucker puncher and a chippy chaser, and the sum of his personal ugliness overwhelmed whatever good he did for the New York Yankees.

chippie-chaser (also chippy-chaser) 1 [late 19C-1930s] a well-dressed loafer who spec, pursues young shopgirls and even schoolgirls. 2 [1920s+] a devotee of prostitutes or promiscuous women; also in homosexual use.

On average, females had sex 1.5 times per hour. But this rate jumped to 3.5 times per hour immediately after the female had been groomed by a male -- and her partner of choice was likely to be the hunky monkey that did the grooming.

"We're interested in making sure PepsiCo is the choice for [people with disabilities]--employer of choice and partner of choice. Being that those are our goals, we thought, 'What better way to do it than with advertising?'"

Yes, humor does occasionally relieve the relentless ugliness.

"We are looking to set a new standard in the Middle East employment services industry and we intend to become the recruitment partner of choice for companies and jobseekers."

Bankers and others on Wall Street continue to hold their breath as they attempt to survive what many are calling the worst round of layoffs they’ve seen, in the wake of the subprime mortgage debacle. The cuts are coming across the board and with more layoffs looming, career experts advise that executives prepare themselves by starting to quietly look for other job opportunities.

He spends most of his days driving through flat, brown landscapes, past chain stores, strip malls and gas stations, the relentless ugliness of the surroundings seemingly mirroring the nastiness of his interviewees' work or beliefs.

After years of relentless ugliness, beauty is the new subversion.

"The United States will not tolerate the new subversion or destabilization of the democratic governments of Central America," he said.

'Stay calm and relaxed and comfortable. You are entering a culture jam.' It's the new subversion - website spoofs, satire, practical jokes, subtle message changes. Cultural terrorists, they organise "Buy Nothing Days" and disorganise Barbie dolls' voice box. Mix and match disinformation. They send the spin doctors spiralling. Their aim is the media, marketing, consumerism. And their message: 'Break your chains'...

To be sure, the headlines of the moment may exaggerate the vice president's problems. There has been considerable fanfare about Mr. Gore making fund-raising solicitations from the White House. But former White House Legal Counsel Abner Mikva, who warned the president's staff against fund-raising from the White House, says this prohibition clearly didn't apply to the president or vice president; there is well-documented precedent for that distinction, he says.

The relentless ugliness
of reality
follows me doggedly
licking and
biting my feet.

I hear it yapping
Begging for attention,
Tugging at the leash.

If I flip the coin
and follow its flight –
Will I be able
to dream again?