Word: craves
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...steady evolution. A lot like growing up. But do moviegoers ever grow up? Their need for familiar stories starts in childhood. Every parent knows that kids squirm when hearing a bedtime story the first time but love hearing it the 20th. As children or adults, we are supposed to crave novelty but really want assurance. That's why locals eat at the old neighborhood restaurant instead of one that just opened. Or they go to a fast-food franchise. Franchise: it's Hollywood's magic word. For decades, the moguls groused because their products, unlike cars and potato chips, were...
...crave connections because we can’t get lost in the shuffle if people know us, if we’ve made an impression on them, if they count us among their friends. Being alone is my biggest fear, and if thefacebook.com tells me I have 402 friends, than I’m reassured I don’t have to worry. My complex relationships form a web of socialization that keeps me from sinking into a hole of isolation. I feel I’m an integrated part of something larger—a school community...
...moviegoers ever grow up? Their need for familiar stories starts in childhood. Every parent knows that kids squirm when hearing a bedtime story the first time but love hearing it the 20th. As children or adults, we are supposed to crave novelty but really want assurance. That's why locals eat at the old neighborhood restaurant instead of one that just opened. Or they go to a fast-food franchise...
...deathbed, the last face he saw was that of the slave who attended him in his final hour. The interest in Jefferson's racial views, long the subject of scrutiny, has reached a crescendo in our time. As Americans attempt to build a more egalitarian, multiracial future, we crave a better understanding of what the man credited with most eloquently expressing the American creed felt about race. What did Jefferson think about black people? How does his relationship with Sally Hemings complete our picture of him? How should we, in a more racially enlightened era, interpret what we know about...
...refined to be tastier and more convenient but is less nutritious. They are raising vast herds of cattle whose meat is laden with the fat that makes it taste so good. They are producing milk, butter and cheese by the tankerload, again full of the fat that humans crave...