Word: effective
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...Swiss government, playing “she loves me, she loves me not” is roughly equivalent to torturing a small dog with a car battery.Perhaps this should be expected. Switzerland already has animal protection laws ad absurdum. Last month, a set of laws went into effect that require canine owners to take a four-hour course before buying a dog, anglers to take a course on how to catch fish humanely, and pet owners to protect goldfish privacy by not having tanks be transparent on all sides. Only in a country that has discussions on goldfish privacy...
...experiences in a concentration camp, has just released “Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!,” composed of both previously released comics from the 70s and new work exploring their development. The new work investigates comics as a medium and its effect on Spiegelman’s life. The Harvard Crimson: What made comics your chosen medium for self-expression? Art Spiegelman: You know those science experiments with little ducklings that just follow the first thing they see around? The first thing I was able to really see and understand was comics...
...isn’t easy to change our habits, but all this will have an effect, little by little,” he said...
Levin says that Yannatos’ work has extended beyond Harvard and had an effect on the conservation of classical music at large...
...words, as there is on the Ibis. Ghosh does attempt to evoke that aroma, but to do so he relies on the exoticism of foreign languages rather than the exoticism possible through rhetorical artistry. There are so many imported words, though, and he uses them so liberally that the effect is more exhausting than evocative. Passages like the following, from a British merchant fluent in the hodge-podge speech of Far Eastern port towns, confuse and distract rather than educate: “Now there was another chuckmuck sight for you! Rows of cursies for the sahibs and mems...