Word: adjustments
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...show offers some factoids about prairie life (makeup was considered immoral), but it's truly about 21st century society. The women adjust to an un-p.c. life of cooking and cleaning for their newly Marlboro-ized men. "The whole place is like a man's playground," one woman says. And a surprisingly moving epilogue follows the families' re-entry into mall-and-microwave life. Their conclusion--that we're alienated from our work and nature--is trite but hard earned. Does that mean they end up swearing off fast food and video games? Dream on, Pilgrim. --By James Poniewozik
...have chosen to impede the court’s proceedings by attacking its legitimacy. And their defense may be working. Bagosora and Milosovic have found the Achilles’ heel by playing right into Western insecurities about international authority over sovereign nations and their leaders. Take away their names, adjust a few statistics, and one could be looking at a pro-Western general and politician...
...Princeton players] were just good hitters,” Allard said. “They swung their bats. Suzanne pitched great, but they’re just a good hitting team and they’re going to adjust to somebody...
...Kara was getting called on some illegal pitches, which is a tough thing for be called on,” sophomore Breanne Cooley said. “It is tough to adjust to, but she made the adjustment...
...feels it was a necessary move: getting gags in drag was good to him, but it was time to move on. "I realized my audience is lower-class people," he says, "but there are also upper-class people who don't really like slapstick. I had to adjust. I've grown...