Word: gist
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...Gist: Sixteen of India's best known writers travel across the country to document and observe areas and communities that are most vulnerable to the HIV/AIDS crisis - transgendered men and women of the "hijra" community; sex workers and their families in Mumbai; truckers who spend most of their lives on the road; the disaffected youth who have turned to injectable drugs; and homosexual men whose lifestyle is criminalized by Indian...
...Gist: Depending on who you talk to, Michelle Obama has either been a valuable, humanizing presence in her husband's historic presidential campaign, or a divisive, cringe-inducing liability. Public curiosity about Michelle - a product of Chicago's South Side, an outspoken Harvard-educated lawyer and a mother of two - has been at a fever pitch since her husband announced his candidacy. It seems an apt time for a biography of Michelle, from her childhood in her family's bungalow on Euclid Avenue to the current campaign, just weeks from its conclusion. Washington Post staffer Liza Mundy offers a rundown...
...Gist: There's something about film critics (or maybe all critics, or possibly just people who like things) that makes them susceptible to the lure of lists. Top Ten Films of All Time, Top 14 Movie Villains, Top 25 Serbian Horror Flicks-the combinations are endless. In his latest, Have You Seen...?, film critic and historian David Thomson, author of the singular The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, delivers a binding-busting list of one thousand flicks you need to check out. Not that he likes-or even respects-all of these movies. Rather, he writes, "This is a book...
...this story had been written a few months ago, that exchange might have been the gist of it - white working-class voters left cold by Barack Obama. But then Holly came back with exactly the thing Obama might hope she would say: "Yeah, and we got $3.74 gas too." For many Americans, the price of gas remains shorthand for a whole world of economic woes...
...Gist:Ladies, dying to get engaged, but your would-be groom is dragging his feet? Look no further than this how-to guide to snagging your very own diamond. Culled from her own personal experience, Uscher-Pines, a PhD from Johns Hopkins, tackles the dos and don'ts of getting even the most reticent man down on one knee. There's no excuse he can give that can't be overturned with a little effort, because, as she contends, "Powerful women take control...