Word: lateraling
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...spot and asked her to turn it on. When I saw the film processed, I knew we'd gotten it - somewhere in these 36 frames, there's a poster. I went back over to her house, and I showed her all the pictures. She told me later that she had picked out her top two favorites and marked them on the slides. I've since heard that when the guy in Cleveland got the pictures, he went, "First of all, where's the bikini?" He told me he wasn't ever gonna pay me, because he hated the pictures...
...iconic I don't know. If you think back, no one knew who Farrah Fawcett was. Charlie's Angels didn't come out until six months later. But this poster came out and sold millions of copies at, I think, $3 a pop. I think the reason it was such a success is that Farrah had such a fresh face. She was the girl next door. So if you were a teenager, you could bring this in the house and put it up in your room - as long as Mom didn't look too closely. Once her poster became such...
...teaching advice to faculty and teaching fellows throughout the school year, has already in recent months seen its staff shrink by six employees, or nearly 50 percent of its personnel, according to the Center's director, James D. Wilkinson '65. And while some of those positions may be filled later this summer because the vacancies opened after staffers either accepted a buyout from the University or found jobs elsewhere, Wilkinson said he still expects the Center to lack the manpower to accomplish all of its goals...
...member is Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina. In a bracing news conference June 24, the 49-year-old confessed to an affair with an Argentine woman following a bizarre six-day disappearance that grabbed national headlines when his staff and family claimed ignorance about his whereabouts. Aides later said Sanford was hiking along the Appalachian Trail, and seemed as surprised as everyone else when Sanford reappeared following a visit to Argentina. In disclosing the affair, Sanford also announced he would resign as head of the Republican Governors Association. His wife, who apparently had known of the liaison...
...Drew national attention, and many constituents' ire, by announcing he would reject about $700 million of the expected $2.8 billion in federal funding directed to South Carolina in the 2009 stimulus bill - which he opposed. He later backed down after losing his fight in court...