Word: act
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...delicate balancing act," Carter said. "Because we are not as large, we wanted to protect our competitive position, so we did struggle with...
...Nina as Stella in Streetcar, and she emits precisely the same cry; she has remembered and transformed her mourning into art, and the audience applauds fervently. It is a lovely clue to one of the movie's themes, as Almodovar describes it: "the capacity of women to act without being professional actresses: to lie, to fake, to perform. Men and women both have loneliness, pain, the same kind of suffering. But the way women react to these things is much more spectacular, much more cinematic. It does seem that men are made up of fewer pieces than women...
...times. Sirinsky says, "The interweaving of fact and fiction has no place in a biography." That's fine if you imagine that biographies are by and large truthful. They are not. As anyone who has ever attempted to write a "true" account of an actual event knows, the very act of putting pen to paper creates a veil of artifice that is drawn over the subject in question. If anything, Morris' technique strikes me as honest. He views his subject through the veil of fiction. It is truth that has no place in a biography. History is a consensual...
Witnesses to the Seattle shooting said they had never seen the gunman before, but police chief Norm Stamper called it "a deliberate, calculated act." Area schools under lockdown were reopened the day after the shooting, but with the suspect still at large over the weekend, police urged residents to use extra caution. They were not, however, encouraged to stay home from work...
...three sites are secure and approved by TRUSTe, a nonprofit organization that certifies that websites meet certain privacy standards. iCanBuy takes the extra step of shielding young shoppers from merchants' marketing e-mail. And under a federal law made final last month, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, all sites requesting identifying information from children will soon have to meet strict guidelines. If the website operators intend to post or sell information from a child under 13, they will have to get written or oral parental consent, or use a new kind of digital identification technology...