Word: foreword
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...playhouse parking lot from spring to fall. And the offerings are consciously seasonal - chestnuts, squash and hardy greens like kale have settled in for the winter, and you won't see another heirloom tomato until next spring. The only off-putting thing is the menu's achingly earnest foreword-cum-manifesto: "We strive to raise awareness of a more sustainable food future ..." But that's quickly forgiven once the consistently fine food is on the table. And all the preachiness is totally forgotten by dessert. The heavenly sweets - hot chocolate soup, a "conversation" of apple tarts and sorbet - are listed...
...credits Fur is "inspired" by Patricia Bosworth's sober, well-researched and touching 1984 biography of Diane Arbus, the photographer who specialized in making indelible images of the freakish-giants, dwarfs, Siamese twins and the like-in mid-20th century America. The filmmakers, in an on-screen foreword, say that what we are about to see is "a film that invents characters and situations that reach beyond reality to express what might have been Arbus' inner experience on her extraordinary path...
...these scenarios have been described before; what made this report so newsworthy was that the published version includes a foreword by none other than Tony Blair, who writes: ?"It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases's causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable...
...served as the moderator of the forum, which attracted about 250 students, forcing several dozen to stand. The forum is timed to coincide with the first publication of the HLR for the year, which traditionally covers the Supreme Court’s previous term. Posner wrote a 71-page foreword for the issue, while Jackson and Young wrote articles on the role of foreign law in American courts. Posner focused his speech on the political nature of the Supreme Court and how justices often make decisions based on their personal preferences. “To me it?...
...existed, stories where they may not have been found, and symbols out of everyday occurrences, seeking to give her audiences “pleasure and cognition… wonder, skepticism, beauty” and more. “In her films,” writes Tom Gunning in his foreword to Child’s book This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics Of Film, “images, sound and words are all treated as plastic matter, open to re-arrangement, liberated from predetermined meaning, and embarked on adventures in ambiguity and discovery.” Such liberation...