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...usual picturesque result of successful lobbying: a bit of old-fashioned horse trading. "At one point they offered us a deal," said Walker. "If we backed off on masochism, they would create a sadistic disorder to cover wife beaters." No deal. The group began to discuss a supposed hallmark of masochism, the willingness to endure pain. "Oh, you mean, like early-morning joggers?" inquired one of the feminists. "No, football players," said another; and a third chimed in, "What about high heels or girdles?" The hallmark was dropped. As compromise clauses hummed through the air, "we sat there horrified," said...
...afternoon address, Summers reiterated a hallmark of his agenda: Harvard’s global responsibility...
Since isolated stem-cell lines are identical in genetic content to that of their donors, Hwang’s cell lines could serve as the first step in creating individual patient-based therapies—the next hallmark in the field of therapeutic systems...
...hallmark of any commercial film is that it resolves the plot. More and more, as this year's Cannes selections demonstrate, art films shrink from happy endings; sad ones, endings of any certainty. Michael Haneke's Hidden, the critics' current favorite to win the Palme d'Or, refused to unravel its central enigma. So does Broken Flowers, though Don need only ask a question or two of a few people he meets to find what he was ostensibly searching for. The mystery and the answer, Jarmusch says, is in Murray's face, whose contours and conundrums are always worth studying...
Champagne, catfights, and coked-out models are the hallmark of any fashion show worth its money. Not so at Eleganza 2005. While you might have been able to find one or more of those things at the Kong after-party, participants say Eleganza was more about Red Bull, teamwork, and psyched-up models. Scandalous...