Word: blinkings
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When Ann Coulter referred to Muslim expatriates as “poor little Pakis,” the salivating watchdogs at Media Matters bit, but most people didn’t blink. When the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib was likened to “a weekend in Las Vegas” by radio personality Jay Severin, the nation’s courthouses and airwaves were silent; there were no fiery calls for contrition...
...first brutally degraded by the Dutch, then almost murdered by a collaborator who is the last person we suspect of leading a double wartime life. The Saturnalia of liberation is more shocking, more bitterly ironic, to Verhoeven than the grim reaping of wartime and he does not blink at showing them. They are, in fact, the most shocking and subversive and hard to accept of all his images. We didn't want to see people we've always thought of as heroes in an anti-heroic light. And now we don't want to see people we think...
...display offer an intimate look at Piero's skill. The facing profiles of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino are iconic Renaissance images, especially the Duke, Federico III, one of the Renaissance's most accomplished condottieri, or mercenary barons. Painting with brilliant color and unfiltered realism, Piero doesn't blink at the prominence of Federico's nose and chin, but he never crosses into caricature. His approach gives Piero's portraiture a strikingly modern aspect. "It is almost hyper-realism," Bertelli says. "The faces are gigantic compared to the background landscape, making them monumental." The same attention to character...
...Still no offers yet. But don’t blink now—at the center of Harvard’s rising program is a young man who could be gone in a flash...
...concepts sound interesting, the book quickly becomes as repetitive as Mrs. Kimball lecturing you while you were hogging the blocks during playtime. It never reaches the same level of enjoyability as other popular works of social science. After all, you never once had her tell you “Blink.” Perhaps the reasoning behind the anecdotes—which cover industries from gold mining and technology to automobiles and physics—is to convince CEOs and businessmen to take a chance with revealing some of their biggest secrets to the world community. By doing...