I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

It was a frenzy that got out of hand, ... The certifications calmed things down.

It was a frenzy that got out of hand. The certifications calmed things down.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.