Noun
collectible items that were originally designed to be short-lived
The MoMA launched the first major retrospective of Tim Burton's work --more than 700 drawings, paintings, storyboards, puppets, costumes, and cinematic ephemera.
No longer the cute ingenue, you may be shocked by Anne Hathaway's blistering performance as a wayward junkie emerging from rehab in Rachel Getting Married.
Close encounters are likely to cause impaired judgment and embarrassing displays of rapture. To be sure, behind the gold teeth and devil-may-care insouciance, there is a heart-melting softie.
U.S. relationships with Pakistan have reached a nadir, with top American officials accusing the nominal ally's spy agency of subverting their efforts in Afghanistan.
Is she qualified to be president? Even ardent conservative Charles Krauthammer lamented in 2008 about “the paucity of any Palin record or expressed conviction on the major issues of our time.”
Adjective
traveling from place to place, esp. for work for relatively short periods
Her off-screen life includes six children, global activism, a storied romance with Brad Pitt, and an ineffable balance of peripatetic adventure with domesticity.
Noun
change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is not welcome
Will Justin Bieber still be a mega star ten years from today? Or will he, like many teen idols before him, prove unable to adjust to the vicissitudes of time?