Word: erection
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Artists have always been much less snobbish about their sources than the idealizing critics who erect value systems on the back of their work. The process came to a climax in the '60s with Pop art. Moreover, since "low" sources cycle into "high" products that are then cycled back, as style, into "low" areas again, the supposedly rigid divisions between fine and popular art are more like a maze of mirrors, one reflecting the other ad infinitum...
Included in the presentations--made primarily by members of a joint student-faculty space committee--was a discussion of whether the Law School should erect a four-story building in its main quadrangle and whether such a structure should primarily be used to house faculty offices or classrooms displaced by the Langdell renovations...
...American first have sexual intercourse?" (at age 16 or 17); "Out of 10 American women, how many would you estimate have ever masturbated?" (six to eight); "What percentage of women engage in anal sex?" (30% to 40%); "What do you think is the average length of a man's erect penis?" (five to seven inches). Still, as Kinsey shows, the level of actual knowledge suggests that the great sexual revolution of the late '60s was vastly over-rated. Of women 30 to 44, only 55% got a passing grade on the test (10 correct answers); of men in the same...
...through on the rest of his program will depend heavily on the returns from those elections, when as many as 70% of the current legislators may be replaced. The question is whether the infusion of fresh blood will help Collor in his drive toward the First World -- or will erect new Third World roadblocks...
...Americans to run to the barricades, they have to care enough to erect them. So far, for their dose of populism, Americans are content to let their patrician President eat pork rinds, lay out a horseshoe pitch at the White House and evoke a "kinder, gentler" nation like a smug, self-fulfilling national mantra...