Word: inverts
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...this delicate subject is tackled by a young French-American writer, Amanda Filipacchi in her first novel, Nude Men. Filipacchi tackles both adult sexual behavior and juvenile eroticism by attempting to invert sexualized objectification...
...TURN our apathy around is to take up the weapons of modern politics--the video camera and the threat of bad press--and invert them for the good. This idea has two parts. The first--"Maumauing the Spin Doctors"--uses the threat of negative publicity to force political debate. The second, and more important, part--which does not need a catchy title--concentrates on encouraging real, face-to-face dialogue between politicians and our generation...
...that doesn't mean that it couldn't (or won't) happen anytime soon. After all, it only took two years to invert the composition of DeWolfe, and only one year to reverse the status of Dudley House...
Editorials, it seems, are the violence we do to words. Fabricating an argument, we pick apart and invert language on itself; and we portray it, politically, to our advantage in the ethical warfare for public opinion...
PERHAPS Harvard administrators feel content with a B-. On a scale of one to five, with one representing being "very satisfied" with their undergraduate experience, sophomores, juniors and seniors gave the Harvard experience a 2.1. Invert that to a regular four-point scale and you get a 2.9, a little under a B. In 1973, students ranked Harvard on this scale at 1.7, a C-. To some students, this means failure at Harvard...