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The beauty of this advertisement comes from many elementsfirst, the association with an Italian icon, and second, the brilliant execution that ties so wonderfully to the concept of two kinds of sauce.

It became such an icon that he even parodied it himself with his Paul Is Live album recorded in 1993.

When the hasp is open or the lock icon is missing, the Web site is not authenticated as genuine, and any information transmitted is in the clear--that is, unencrypted.

Full of zip and brio, especially the kick-ass Jennifer, they whiz through this story like bright icons who also have surprising depths.

Too, he preaches celibacy, so that he has become an icon of the cessant cults.

Toward the electron horizons, the discrete icons blurred together until they looked like an impressionist cityscape shining into a starless sky.

The tiny color-coded icons representing the staggered flights of Dazzlers moved slowly, even at their incredible acceleration, on such a tiny display, and she glanced at the flagship again.

And indeed in the Heian period the exceptional visual attraction of the mandalas and other Shingon icons greatly helped to endear esotericism to the Kyoto courtiers, who were finely sensitive to beauty in all its forms.

Silas Fennec felt a tremor from the lascivious tongue of his stone icon, and puissance roared through him.

Carter Franch, a real white-shoe number, Groton and Yale, and Guerfoyle treats him like an icon.

A surprisingly large number of people had given her a wide variety of things, which ranged from a beautiful book of the Gospels from Bishop Fedor, the stringed instrument called a gusli made of carved and polished wood with ivory pegs from Sadko, silks and linens from various merchants, and an assortment of jewels from the boyar families, to a simple piece of embroidered linen for a shift from two market-women who sold eggs, a little wood-carving of a bear stealing honey from a hollow tree from one of the palace doorkeepers, and a tiny icon of the Mother of God in enamel on copper from Brother Isak, the last three having been made by their donors.

For example, here was an icon leading to the Zen Hedonist thought virus, which promised to resculpt his brain to accept a self-consistent philosophy of total passivity, total pleasure, total renunciation.

The twin, rapidly strobing blood-red icons of unknown hyper translations glared in the depths of the master plot, and the chief of the watch was leaning forward over the shoulder of one of the other sensor techs, watching her display as she worked to refine the data.

Arakel Hovanian, acting commodore of the 93rd Destroyer Squadron, Republican Navy, glared at the master plot showing the icons of four CLACs, four battlecruisers, and seven destroyers and light cruisers sweeping inward from the hyper limit of the Des Moines System.

A renowned ichthyologist just back from an investigation of the bony fish in Lake Titicaca, an art historian who was the world expert on Russian icons, a philologist from the British Museum who spoke seven Chinese dialects and Simeon LeClerque who had won a literary prize for his biography of Bishop Berkeley.