Word: jerkingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...salesman who convinces Helen that he's a spy who needs her help. He even treats Arnold to his personal view on life and women at one point. But he's too slimy for words, the kind of guy who has to lie for sex. He's a jerk, and his lifestyle is clearly not one to be imitated...
Perhaps we do have our share of so called "knee-jerk liberals," I suspect that part of the reason Lat so relishes their existence at Harvard is that they do little to advance liberal causes...
...that New York is the capital of sportswear fashion, and histrionics don't sell the casual stuff. But to judge a designer's work, you have to discard the show biz, often even the costume as it's put together, and look at the elements separately. Underneath the jerk outfits, there may be wearable, even best-selling clothes...
Complete randomization would rob houses of any sort of individuality or character. Knee-jerk fans of diversity seem to forget that Adam's artsiness and Kirkland's Incest Fest bring individuality and richness into their inhabitants' lives. The alternative to house "character" is a system of 12 sterile dormitories, nothing more than place to live, rather than the vibrant communities they are intended...
...chance to get it right. Assuming he finesses the current crisis, the President should learn the central lesson before other bad actors follow Kim's lead. The U.S. should actively engage the world's other rogue states before it's too late -- no matter the know-nothings whose knee-jerk reaction to creative diplomacy is to cry appeasement. It won't always work. It didn't with Iraq. But peace prospects grow as fewer states are isolated. The time to deal with nuclear blackmail is before those who would threaten trouble acquire the wherewithal to make...