Word: element
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...other words, the show does not try to dramatize the poem, but uses the poem as one element in a collage of weirdness. A more serious problem is that mere weirdness doesn't allow much variety or development; so that this show, short as it is, can seem very long. Towards the end, as the techniques that were once startling--head-banging, repetition, shouting--became familiar, I found myself longing for something genuinely risky--a violent gesture, or a vulnerable one, anything that would seem like a payoff to all the build-up. Instead, the show's climax...
...recently, a new contender has emerged on the scene: "team chemistry," that elusive, human element that allows a team to play above (or below) its given talent level. Champions like the Bulls have it; laughingstocks like the Jets...
Whatever the reason, the advent of this new element has had a profound effect on the baseball world. Players like ex-Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly have prolonged their careers and gained the respect of millions via their reputation as "solid clubhouse presences," whose diminishing productivity is offset by leadership effects...
...word choice becomes a debate over civil rights, it is no longer a matter of political correctness, but instead one of fundamental liberty. To wonder about another's lifestyle and to live differently are both legitimate forms of difference; in the end, however, to accept is the most important element of diversity. To write off someone else as a "trendy moral relativis[t]" is far easier than understanding him or her, but in a society that is supposed to embrace difference, one where "all men were created equal," the consequences are far more dangerous...
...cover was one element of a public emergence that served to heighten Morris' visibility and, subsequently, make his fall more newsworthy. In addition, he told colleagues he was upset with TIME's characterization of him as, among other things, "a rogue...