Word: craving
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...sometimes subversive?content. News, much of it reflecting poorly on the Party, tends to break first on the Net. Chat rooms buzz with risquE flirtations. Dirty jokes abound. And chortals have taken advantage, successfully selling themselves as the best way to reach the young, affluent, educated consumers that advertisers crave. In the midst of a global advertising depression, the three chortals posted ad-revenue gains of between 9% and 22% during this year's third quarter...
...trend. Marcus notes that even stores like Urban Outfitters are now touting knitting manuals tailor-made for Gevneration X. “So many of us work in industries in which you produce things you can’t really touch. Creating something that will last—we crave that,” she says. McNulty is less philosophical, viewing knitting as just a convenient hobby. “As far as arts and crafts go, knitting is very portable, and involves creativity and technique,” she says. Whatever the future holds for knitting as sociological phenomenon...
...Harvard Film Archive, the Brattle Theater and even the Loews Harvard Square Theater cater to sophisticated viewers—those who crave big-budget fun have to make the trek out to Boston Common or Fenway. The people behind the movies at these institutions have little tolerance for exploding cars or Hollywood endings...
...seemingly each generation, concocts its own Abraham has liberated him to create his own, whom he whimsically calls "Abraham No. 241." This Abraham, he says, "is perceptive enough to know that his children will fight, murder [and] fly planes into buildings." But he also knows that "his children still crave God, still dream of a moment when they stand alongside one another and pray for their lost father and for the legacy of peace among nations that was his initial mandate from heaven...
...they have failed seems particularly contrarian when so much attention on bin Laden and his followers in the past year has finally granted them the stature they crave. And their failure was by no means a given. Not so long ago, the jihadists appeared to be moving from one success to another: first the Iranian revolution in 1979, then the successful guerrilla war that forced the Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989. But in Saudi Arabia following the Gulf War, for example, a rupture appeared between moderate Islamists--those of the pious middle classes imbued with conservatism--and the more...