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...elicits responses from even the most taciturn Quadlings. Some walk through the shuttle's middle set of doors and emit a sly smile at the novelty. Some grab the metal poles lining the seats and swing around like circus performers. And some simply genuflect at any sighting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE... | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

...vain for radical campaign-finance reform that would have banned pac money and out-of-state contributions. As she said, "You can't perform surgery in a dirty operating room and with a team that hasn't scrubbed." LOW POINTS THE SUCKER AWARD: Republican presidential hopefuls rushed to genuflect at the Dallas conclave summoned by Ross Perot. Six weeks later, Perot announced the formation of an independent party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best And Worst Of Politics In 1995 | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

Will, with joy, to wallet genuflect...

Author: By Joshus A. Kaufman, | Title: 'BIZ THE SEASON | 11/22/1995 | See Source »

...genuflect before the gods of post modernism--Bakhtin, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan--or if you've been accompanying Umberto Eco during his walks in the fictional woods, you may want to take a look at this novel for its oppositional stance. Otherwise, you would be well advised to stay clear...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Rameau's Pastiche | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

...Memorial Church compelled everyone who enters it to genuflect, it would be much the same thing, he says...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Dunster Tutor Noel Ignatiev, A Lifetime of Fighting 'Injustice' | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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