Word: bow
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...Elkies. Elkies, a campus personality remarkable for the winning combination of his youth and achievements, sat quietly in the second row throughout the performance of his composition, standing only for a few unassuming seconds afterwards to offer the audience a short wave, a little kiss and an understated bow...
...existence has hardly been a charmed one. I was stripped of my first Miss Teen USA crown after I posed for a series of nude photographs. I tried to argue that the photographs were tastefully done, that they were more art than pornography—I was wearing a bow tie in them. But apparently the Miss Teen USA judges had a problem with the whole having-a-penis thing. My second crown was revoked for the same reason (different set of photographs—this series was set in the Australian outback). I guess they had forgotten about...
...Jones, a tall, genial charmer who sported the goatee and floppy bow tie of a small-town art teacher, had plenty of career left. He reunited with Geisel and directed two Dr. Seuss half-hours, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Horton Hears a Who! He wrote two delightful memoirs, Chuck Amuck and Chuck Reducks. And for a 1985 Museum of Modern Art tribute to Warner Bros. animation, he drew new Bugses and Daffys on the Manhattan museum's walls--a tacit acknowledgment from the world of high culture that this cartoon man was a significant creator of modern...
...will win on March 17; "the question is by how much." It is a vital question. If he cannot pass the 115-seat mark - and that would require the PSD to score another 35 seats - he could be in a similar fix to the one that led Guterres to bow...
...associations. So vast is this rift that our discourse on race has assumed a corresponding dichotomy: current discussions about race inevitably consist of “for” or “against” arguments about a limited number of policy topics. An intellectual who refuses to bow to these seemingly rigid dualities, then, both replenishes an increasingly worn-out vocabulary and creates some breathing space for approaches that have been left out of the dialogue on race in America...