Word: humanizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revelation. James has never considered food in any terms more complicated than hungry, full, yum, yuck. I--and, I would venture to say, most of my female friends--have had as confused and complex a relationship with food as with many a human being...
...human cell is a marvel, not just of engineering but also of traffic control. Proteins are constantly shuttling within it to build and repair substructures, process energy and carry out the myriad functions that keep this basic unit of life alive...
Writing about the nature of laughter, the French philosopher Henri Bergson said that anything that defies or distorts the human form is funny. But giants are rarely funny. When they are not menacing, they are pitiable. People do not like bigness, even when they are impressed by it. There are sound reasons for fearing the recent megamergers of corporations, but there is also the irrational reaction that we do not like the idea of anything that makes puny our control, our self-regard, our size. Thus the insults "Big man! Big shot!" Thus the derisive "Big deal!" Thus Wilt...
Your writer concluded his piece on Einstein by stating, "That he was a flawed human being is not only fascinating in a tabloid sort of way but reassuring as well. It makes our heroes, even those of unfathomable genius, seem a little more like us." If saying that of Einstein works, then it also works for Clinton. LYNN STEPHAN Wichita, Kans...
...very much still animals," he said from his home in Portland, Ore., the least manly city in North America. "We can channel violent feelings into working hard and buying things, but they keep popping up. We need to acknowledge that they are not bad feelings; they are human feelings," he said. I asked him why, in that case, the fight clubs in his novel caused so many problems. "Because it was a book, it had to go somewhere," he explained. "It needed a climax." It was a manly answer. Palahniuk wrote his book in three months; Stiffed took seven years...