Word: cues
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...Lifetime's highest-rated series ever, which takes place on a Stateside base, never sets a dusty foot in the combat zone. It's a guilty pleasure first, soapy and clichéd; there's rarely an emotional moment without a big-eyed kid or a Jude Johnstone ballad to cue the waterworks. There are affairs, alcoholism and girl-talk sessions in which the characters chat about nicknaming their "lady parts" ("my fine china," for instance...
...addiction. Scientists say extinguishing urges is not a matter of getting the feelings to fade but of helping the addict learn a new form of conditioning, one that allows the brain's cognitive power to shout down the amygdala and other lower regions. "What has to happen for that cue to extinguish is not for the amygdala to become weaker but for the frontal cortex to become stronger," says Vocci...
...hailed as a Michelangelo, and the iPhone his or her Sistine Chapel (Steve Jobs can be Pope in this scenario). If you're not a reviewer, chances are you won't even bother to look at the manual. Translucent, jewel-like, artfully phrased dialogue boxes come and go on cue. Window borders bounce and flex just slightly to cue the user where and how you're supposed to drop and drag and scroll them. When you switch the phone to "airplane mode" (no electronic transmissions, for use on planes) a tasteful little orange airplane slides into the menu bar, then...
...paper, as it were. So why is it so hard to get through? Early suspicion falls on Carter's prose--his characters unblushingly utter lines like "You can't talk to me that way!" and "It's time for the lies to stop." (Of her deceased economist, Julia thinks--cue English horn--she "had not even said goodbye.") Plot "twists" arrive at the end of every chapter with metronomic regularity. A certain clockwork orderliness befits any work of this genre, but the relentlessness of the surprises becomes deeply unsurprising. New England White is being marketed as a literary beach book...
Students are required to apply to her often over-subscribed course on the economics of education, and this past year, the course received a 4.5 out of 5 in the CUE guide, while Hoxby received a 4.9 out of 5 for her teaching performance...