Word: fronting
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...know this show?”“I know of it. Never really watched it though.”We find it almost impossible to follow. The colors and sounds wash over us like the light of a fluorescent aquarium, the kissing faces and front doors, the rows of lockers and holding hands. We can’t separate one from another. We bob in the sweet-smelling, stagnant water of scrawled notes and abrupt breakups and triumphant, temporary reconciliations. Kids about my age sitting on logs in the breathy woods, looking out among the trees and then...
There she sat. She sat one row in front of me and two columns away. She sat so well. She did everything well. I could stare at her all day. Wait…wait…here it comes…she smiled. She smiled! My 13-year-old eyes had never seen such magnificence before. It was the dawn of time. The dawn of my life. Or at least it felt like it. I began to see things in a different way. It was as if the universe shrank down into the size of a small classroom...
...Junior midfielder Jason Duboe sent a pass to captain midfielder Max Motschwiller cutting across the field and Motschwiller fired a shot from 10 yards in front of the net into the back of the goal, bringing the score within...
...There is little that is surprising about this. It has long been Mexico's fate to make it onto the front pages of U.S. newspapers only when the news from there is bad. Pessimists could add to the drug wars the parlous state of the Mexican economy - dragged down, as it is, by its close ties to that of the U.S. Alfredo Coutino of the Dismal Scientist projected this week that Mexico could contract by 4% to 5% this year, maybe more, which would put its recession in the same bottom tier as other hard-hit economies such...
...other middle-income nations, and notwithstanding policies by its neighbor to the north that are often less than helpful (the free movement of assault rifles?), Mexico's story is one of the world's more encouraging ones over the past 20 years. You won't read that on the front pages of U.S. newspapers during Obama's brief trip, but you should...