Word: hollowness
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...requisite Shepard themes: the lack of communication between people, the fallibility of memory, the breakdown of the traditional American family, the insatiable restlessness and violence of the American way of life, and the souring of the American myth of rugged individualism, as personified in the hollow denizens of the West...
...paradox ultimately raises the question about how legitimate it is for Columbia to have a Business School in the first place. To condemn Edelman on the grounds that he was violating standards of the acadmey rings hollow. Columbia Business School Dean Thomas Burton sounds hopelessly naive when he says that Edleman would "bias the academic atmosphere" by offering a monetary incentive to students studying how to pull-off a corporate raid effectively. How academic a setting could a how-to-corporate-raid class ever be? How does one study in an intellectual way the practicing of making lots and lots...
...reflagged tanker Bridgeton in the Persian Gulf last July, the U.S. has been humiliated by acts of violence that were almost certainly plotted by Iran. But persuasive proof remained frustratingly elusive. Ronald Reagan's threats of retaliation against any terrorists found with American blood on their hands carried a hollow ring on the all-too- frequent occasions when no evidence could be produced. But last week a carefully coordinated military operation in the gulf swiftly altered the image of U.S. helplessness. A well-laid trap caught Iran red-handed...
...quick procedures can be done on an outpatient basis and require a short recovery period. Tops on the list, for women, is suction lipectomy, an operation developed in France and introduced in the U.S. in 1982. Also called liposuction, it entails the insertion under the skin of a hollow, blunt-ended tube that is attached to a high-powered suction machine that vacuums out the fat. The procedure can take 30 minutes to three hours, depending on how many problem areas are worked on. Removal of saddlebag thighs runs about $2,000; love handles, $1,500; saggy jowls...
Should researchers pinpoint that genetic defect, the next step will be to develop a simple diagnostic test. Doctors now recommend that everyone over 50 periodically undergo routine, if unpleasant, examinations with a proctosigmoidoscope, a hollow, lighted tube that is inserted in the colon to look for signs of cancer. A blood test that could alert people that they carried a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer might motivate them to seek frequent checkups...