Word: contention
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Cardiff is a technogeek. To produce the illusion that her voice is emanating from a point within your brain, she uses special microphones that she builds herself. She loves electronics for the possibilities it provides her. "In some ways, technology has directed the content of my art," she says. What she means is, things give her ideas...
Despite its lack of graphic content, L.I.E. has been slapped with a dreaded NC-17 rating, although the highly honored American Beauty exploited a more explicit, and much less affectionate (heterosexual) May-December romance and was only dealt an R from the MPAA. Clearly, suburbia isn’t the only cave to mine for hypocrisy...
Instead of trying to do too much with the football, like last year when Rose would force some passes to Morris in tight coverage, this year’s squad is content to hold on to the ball—even if it means not using all of the weapons in the arsenal...
...wraps up the stories of the characters he has been following throughout the book in the final chapter, the ending still seems somewhat abrupt. After explaining in exhaustive detail the course of American foreign policy—and domestic presidential politics—over the past decade, he is content to devote his final page to a rushed rundown of President George W. Bush’s first few months in office. The conclusion is not so much an ending as an added segment in a continuing story, but it has, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, turned...
...Saturday, Oct. 6. And somehow, in some way, you are not content. Perhaps you’ve slogged your way through an exhausting week of work and even the alphabet seems beyond your realm of intellectual comprehension. Or perhaps it’s that vague, disquieting sense that nature, despite its splendor, no longer resonates with you; that the brisk, crackling intimations of autumn have failed to permeate your senses. At any rate, you’re listless, apathetic. You feel, in a word, gross...