Word: decentering
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...craved something more than our reporting could deliver. "Most women I know are thoroughly aware of the fertility difficulties we face, so the statistics you highlighted felt like a rebuke, a slap in the face. It would have been a lot more helpful if you had included a decent single man shrink-wrapped with the magazine...
FRIDAY, DAY 7: The fever has broken. I awaken, for the first time, without instinctively looking at the silenced television. This is only partly because nothing decent airs on Fridays. At midnight I don't even rush to grab the remote. Not until 12:20 a.m. do I turn on the set. The colors are blinding, the fast cuts almost nauseating. I tune into E!'s Wild on the Adriatic, and everything seems nonsensical; I can't distinguish pixilated breasts from pixilated buttocks. I am a caveman...
...sitting there thinking to myself, this Dwayne Johnson, The Rock, whoever he is--he's a really decent guy, introspective, with a true sense of proportion about what's meaningful in life. Plus, he makes you feel as if he's really, really confiding...
...Jedi ethic while squirming to elude its strictures; he loves both his faraway mother and the royal temptation at his side; he does engage in a revenge massacre but feels remorse for it; he is disarming and, finally, literally disarmed. By the end of Clones, Anakin is still a decent, stalwart gent, light-years removed from the malefic Vader...
...much the same way, a pristine baby grand in every entryway would foster a culture of musical appreciation. Think of how many people you know have given up playing the piano since arriving in Cambridge, no doubt partly because of the inconvenience of finding a halfway decent one. Before the University spends millions of dollars renovating the MAC, it should budget funds to upgrade its stodgy pianos, to buy some new ones and to keep those it already owns consistently in tune. If you have seen the mile-long list of a capella groups, it should be clear how desperate...