Word: dissect
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...marked me as literary. I was a member of the Chess Club and Chem Club and burned everything I tried to make in Mrs. Delminico's home ec class. My favorite teacher was Mr. Botte, who taught biology and liked to animate the frogs and crawfish we had to dissect by making them dance in their waxed pans...
...Cambridge, Mass. "When I was in the government, the guy sitting next to me didn't know how to do that. He knew about Soviet helicopters. I think CI has matured to the point that there are things that the government can learn from us, such as how to dissect a corporate strategy." Oddly, however, none of the CI professionals interviewed for this article have been approached by the government for help...
...Internet, the endless search for the perfect live bootleg of a favorite song offers welcome procrastination from life’s responsibilities. Why one becomes so obsessed with certain artists and devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...
...student who spends most of his time organzing his CD collection and dreaming of being Conan O’Brien’s sidekick. Oxman follows Scooby through his nonexistent college search and his banal homelife. And here is Solondz at his best, using vicious situations and dialogues to dissect the world of the suburban middle-class. Many of the scenes revolve around the Livingston dinner table where Scooby, his two younger brothers, Brady, a football player worried about his school reputation, and Mikey, an inquisitive, petulant child dying for the recognition of his parents convene every evening...
...Brady [Merchant]—are really good three-point shooters,” Prasse-Freeman says. “That means that even if there’s a shot blocker or even if they clog the lane on us, we’re hopefully able to dissect defenses that...