Word: functions
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...much as the late brothel pictures, which fluctuate with such marvelous ambiguity between desire and repulsion, between the sentimental and the caricatural, while preserving (for the most part) a strict and innately aristocratic ( distance. One side of Lautrec was a goatish, little skeptic who regarded sex as a semiexcretory function -- "To make love," he once said, "it doesn't matter what you're with -- anything will do." The other side was extremely tender, and it comes out most clearly in the paintings of lesbians (a favorite literary topic in Paris in the '90s, but rarely treated in art with anything...
...looms like a pale ghost from an earlier political era, moving from table to table at a campaign function. When he lingers near one table, there is an uncomfortable silence before someone from a group of reporters asks, "Care to join us, Senator?" Twenty-four years after he ended Lyndon Johnson's hopes for a second term by getting 42% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, Eugene McCarthy is running for President again, and no one seems to care...
Frank Dalaklis, unit manager for the Leverett dining hall, said that there has been somewhat of an added strain but that the dining hall has continued to function relatively evenly during peak hours...
...modern era, that may be graffiti's most important function. All we can do is inscribe our thoughts, anonymously, for others to read--at least until Harvard repaints the walls...
...this data will be the diagnosis of disease through the genetic analysis of blood samples. Geneticists will also obtain a wealth of information about how humans function and how they have evolved...