Word: eying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...piece Scramble for Africa, the 14 life-size figures arranged around a table represent the colonial powers that carved up Africa at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, where they helped themselves to what King Leopold II of Belgium called a "slice of this magnificent cake." But in their eye-sizzling faux-African costumes, the figures offer themselves to us in the crazy plumage of the future their colonialist misadventure will create, a world so teeming and cross-pollinating that it's well beyond their grasp. And beyond ours too, though we like to tell ourselves otherwise...
...dormitory has a small courtyard so we could get some sunlight and fresh air. We organized daily activities like yoga, dinner on the rooftop, and a soccer tournament to keep things lively. But daily I would mope for a bit by my window facing the street, once making eye contact with some passersby and gleefully chatting with them using only gestures, until one of the policemen, who stand on every corner with AK 47s, yelled at us to stop. Evidently I might have passed the swine flu just by grinning at them...
...untrained eye, I cannot see how sequestering a girl in a dollhouse like the Ewha area can possibly prepare them to be strong leaders and build a more equal society. In my mind, female CEOs, politicians, and presidents wear power suits, not frills. Perhaps this mentality—that in business and politics, women get ahead by adapting to the male status quo, at least superficially—is dated. Vogue put Michelle Obama on its March cover partly because, as its Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour commented, “She believes, as we do at Vogue, that...
...Even the notion of a fleet being maintained with an eye to going cheap on planes used for "poor" routes makes little sense, other experts say. "If you've established maintenance and safety operations for your fleet, it's going to be applied uniformly throughout," says Anthony Council, spokesman for the Geneva-based International Air Transport Association. "The reason, as we've seen in this case, is simple: should any of your planes have a serious incident, your entire operation falls under suspicion." (Read: "How to Survive a Plane Crash...
...transactions of daily existence - getting everybody dressed and fed, cleaning up, keeping quarrels to a simmer, not a boil. Now and then - in moments that genuinely did seem unscripted - Kate would wilt, leaning against the kitchen counter with a cup of coffee and seeming, for the twinkling of an eye, as though she were allowing herself to absorb the shock of it all. But then she would shake it off, plow forward, harass Jon into making himself a lower-calorie lunch and go back to wiping down the counters and giving orders. (See the top 10 skanky reality shows...