Word: decentering
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...council does "slow down" until a mayor is chosen, Duehay acknowledges, and the fact that it takes some time is a "decent criticism," but that's not so important in the long...
...fact, one reason writers become writers in the first place is to enable them to look more decent and honorable in print than they ever could in person. It's a bad lot on the whole--petty, nasty, bilious, suffused with envy and riddled with fear. Myself excluded, of course. And that fathead, Shakespeare...
...cover subject, Elian Gonzalez. "It's been painful as a father as well as a journalist to watch Elian have to endure this interruption in his blossoming," says Padgett. With the assistance of stringer Dolly Mascarenas , Padgett interviewed Elian's relatives in Florida and Cuba. "Both families are decent, sincere people who obviously care a lot for Elian," says Padgett. But the INS ruling returning the boy home, he says, reflects Elian's "deep connection with the father." Padgett can understand. "Elian kind of reminds me of my boy in many ways...
...lovely manners, don't they?) A few have lived abroad, but all remain captives of a society still largely defined by class. Apted, whose films include Coal Miner's Daughter and The World Is Not Enough, has the storytelling skills to weave a powerful and poignant snapshot of some decent folks who have become, collectively, Britain's first family...