Word: instrumentalized
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...match it, all in one go, so seamlessly that my 3-year-old daughter - and I apologize for going to this place, but the fact is striking nonetheless - had no trouble unlocking the iPhone and dialing with it (even though she believed that she was playing a musical instrument...
...does the best Al Pacino impression? -Quan Ha, Littleton, CO Certainly not me. Kevin Spacey comes close. Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument...
...course, there are nine more songs on Icky Thump, and none of them are simple. There's an alien invasion-- style Mellotron solo on the title track and what one hopes is a humorous attempt to reintroduce the bagpipe as a legitimate rock instrument on Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn. These are Top 10 fare compared with the album-stopping Conquest, in which Jack, Meg and a band of mariachis exhume a Corky Robbins tune. It's funny. Once...
...This was a profoundly radical vision, a conscious effort to use the U.S. military as the primary instrument of foreign policy, a garbled, brutish update of Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" aggressiveness. But as the rationale for war in Iraq evaporated with the mirage of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Bush spinmeisters tacked on a new rationale, with rhetoric appropriated from a competing school of foreign policy, one that Roosevelt disdained: Woodrow Wilson's democratic idealism. But utopian militarism just isn't very American, in the end. We like to think of ourselves as having...
...Child Left Behind (NCLB) a failing grade [June 4]. There is no way to fix a law that operates under the flawed assumption that tests rather than teachers should govern curriculum. Testing is simply a tool for measuring learning in the same way that a thermometer is an instrument for reading temperature. What would happen to the health of a nation if lawmakers tried to force doctors to spend a large portion of their time taking patients' temperatures instead of practicing medicine? The reality of NCLB is that it allows few children to get ahead...