Word: interpretions
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Before they accept the proposal many third-year students, whose class is the first to fall under the concentration requirement, want to know how flexibly the board will interpret the phrase, "exceptional circumstances...
Novelists who have trained as journalists can usually be identified by their lack of plumage. There is something about trying to interpret the world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are implied, not spelled out. Anyone who has followed Joan Didion's career as a magazine writer can easily discern the newsprint between her fine lines. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of her best magazine work, brought wide praise in 1968. With the publication of her novel Play...
...long as she remains married, however, Marabel continues to interpret submissiveness in her own irrepressible way. One of her pieces of advice to the Total Woman is to wave goodbye to the husband when he leaves for work. A neighbor saw Marabel doing that herself one morning not long ago. Only she didn't just wave. She suddenly started doing the cancan...
...University's brief will urge the court to interpret the Constitution broadly, permitting universities to implement a wide variety of affirmative action admissions procedures to achieve racial, ethnic and sexual diversity...
Another explanation is that the ads draw attention, but that women interpret them innocently. The Vogue spread drew only 35 letters, pro and con. Says Managing Editor Kate Lloyd: "The pictures reminded me of when I was 16 years old and indulged in horseplay with fellas. That's why it surprises me that people would read into it real harm...