Word: eyebrows
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...them. Adults fulfill an essential part of themselves in being authorities; it is one way of expressing care for others." To demonstrate what authority is, Sennett portrays not a politician dominating a crowd but Conductor Pierre Monteux, whose "ease at being in control" was so complete that a raised eyebrow was enough to cue the French horns...
Fred W Friendly, a pioneer of television journalism, knows the power of the combination: "Pictures can so create a climate that at the last moment a comment can be just a raised eyebrow." But, he adds, commentary is self-defeating if the viewer says, "Now that I know how it came out, I know how they chose their pictures." With all three networks gussying up, or glitching up, their news, they need to reconsider whether analysis becomes opinionated show biz instead of a momentary oasis of reflective comment...
Ordinarily neither of these outlandish applications would have raised an eyebrow over at the patronage-happy pension board. Unfortunately for Hynes and Sinnott, however, their cases came to light after the Boston Globe uncovered another suspicious pension request. Robert Toomey Sr., 40, manager of operations for the department of public facilities, claimed that he had suffered a ruptured cervical disc in a car accident while on City business. This left him in "constant pain, unable to do any lifting or bending." His disability request: $30,240 a year. According to the Globe, he had taken out nine separate accident insurance...
...Keillor's jokes are rural; he raises an eyebrow ever so slightly at the Midwesternizing of the counterculture in his parody of a shopping-guide ad for "St. Paul's Episcopal Drop-In Hair Center (in the rectory basement)" where the Rev. Ray and the Rev. Don, trained barbers, "offer warm, supportive pre-and post-trim counseling . . . and if you just want to come in and talk about haircuts, well, that's cool too." Another ad, inserted by a people's used-furniture collective, condemns alienating queen-size beds, recommending instead "our Warm Valley Bed . .. narrow...
...raised an eyebrow back in 1838, when Springfield, Ill., Lawyer Abraham Lincoln's name appeared in a newspaper ad. By the early 1900s, however, most states had outlawed attorney advertising because it was considered unnecessary and, worse, unseemly. Then, in 1976, two young Phoenix lawyers took out a one column ad offering "legal services at very reasonable fees" and listed six examples. The pair were censured by the Arizona Supreme Court. A year later they won vindication: a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the First Amendment bars prohibition of lawyer advertising, unless, for example, it is "false, deceptive...