Word: favorered
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...Carnet" eschews panels and layouts in favor of life sketches or quick cartoons, mixed with explanatory text. The book begins in France with lovely renderings of rooftops, caf?s and the people he meets. But in the margins the text reveals an undercurrent of loneliness and anxiety. Slowly you catch on that the tour comes on the heels of a major breakup and that someone, presumably his ex-lover, has become seriously ill back in the States. (The details stay frustratingly obtuse.) In spite of this Thompson continues on to Marrakech, alone. His three weeks in North Africa result in complex...
...though we tried to avoid it, it happened over the course of those two hectic months in Rome that my roommate and I, two open music snobs, cut off from all sources of new music (save MTV), became completely sympathetic to the arguments in favor of bad pop and established our eternal patronage to a single song that forever in my mind will come to define summer...
...definitely in favor of anything that groups are doing to emphasize the issues and bring out voters,” Mahan said...
...Chicago’s answer to 106 & Park, where top 40 rappers and singers play 15-minute sets and DJs perform ridiculous skits. It was a three-day event, but since we could only afford tickets to one night, we had to miss R. Kelly, D12, and Twista in favor of an incredibly awesome lineup featuring Ma$e, J-Kwon, Houston, Jojo, and the Ying Yang Twins. I picked Juice up at the train station around 5:30 and we gunned it straight to Taco Bell, where a group of short-skirted 14-year old girls asked...
...Occasionally I was also responsible for delivering said information to various members of our and other firms. Once I even spell-checked a Powerpoint presentation that was being given to the CFO of a Fortune 500 corporation. The CFO! I considered changing the order of the bullet-points in favor of the transaction so that the lines starting with my initials read sequentially, but the risk of being found out was just too great. After all, there are four layers of employees between me and the guy who will eventually give the presentation...