Word: mannered
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...like to call this the “Bono effect.” Named after the granddaddy of all self-righteous entertainers who have melded promotion with selflessness, the “Bono effect” tells us that if you give away enough money in a highly visible manner, you will get back even more money through the magic of publicity. You might say that this “Bono effect” puts a whole new spin on the concept of doing work “pro-Bono.”While the “Bono effect?...
Americans are very good at debating morality and very bad at reaching any conclusions about it. In an ethically relative world like ours, all manner of moral felons - corporate criminals, drug peddlers, even killers - have at least some constituency that's willing to hear them out and show them mercy. Not so pedophiles...
...fashionably minimalist decor and an exquisite meal for less than $90 a night sounds like a divine miracle in Japan, that's because it is - in a manner of speaking. Many of the country's monasteries and temples provide reasonably[an error occurred while processing this directive] priced accommodation in adjoining inns known as shukubo, and cost-conscious travelers - as well as those seeking an interesting alternative to hotels - would do well to book a night in one. The monasteries and temple precincts of Honshu's sacred mountains, such as Mount Koya, Mount Shosha and Mount Hiei, all provide lodgings...
...late 1930s, a time when deciphering Picasso's intentions, getting inside his darting, catch-me-if-you-can progress, from Cubism to Neoclassicism, from Surrealism to Guernica, was an all-important matter to that small but crucial category of American artists who had no use for the approved manner of the moment, American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although Picasso never set foot on American soil, in the intense conclaves of this would-be American avant-garde...
While it's hard to fault the intentions of any corporation or nonprofit that raises money for breast cancer, critics of pink-ribbon funding say that even though a lot of money is raised, it isn't necessarily being spent in a thoughtful, coordinated manner. "There's a lot of duplication on how we fund research, and there are huge gaps as well," explains BCA executive director Barbara Brenner, who would like to see more research on the environmental causes of breast cancer...