Word: mannerisms
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...Jung says he's resisted the pressure and has made no changes to his production. Still, the heat caused some of his financing to dry up, forcing him to raise additional funds in a rather unorthodox manner: in return for a loan of about $20,000 from one backer, he says, he put his kidney?yes, his kidney?up as collateral...
...coconut palms, weeping figs and streams, the Sarojin (sarojin.com) could just as easily be a private tropical estate as a resort?and that's perfectly appropriate, given its namesake. A figure from Thai folklore, Lady Sarojin was the eldest daughter of a nobleman and renowned for the exemplary manner in which she ran her father's household. There's certainly a familial intimacy about the resort, which consists of just 56 suites, sequestered amid national parkland an hour's drive from Phuket Airport...
...aide must recuse himself from official action to avoid a conflict (answer: rarely). The most basic stricture of House ethics guidelines gives the ethics committee leeway to act or not act in almost any case. It requires that a congressman ?shall conduct himself at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.? In more extreme cases, they investigate colleagues and recommend punishments that range from barely a wrist-slap to expulsion. The panels sometimes seem moved to action as much by a frenzy of press attention to a specific case as by its severity...
...coconut palms, weeping figs and streams, the Sarojin, www.sarojin.com, could just as easily be a private tropical estate as a resort - and that's perfectly appropriate, given its namesake. A figure from Thai folklore, Lady Sarojin was the eldest daughter of a nobleman and renowned for the exemplary manner in which she ran her father's household. There's certainly a familial intimacy about the resort, which consists of just 56 suites, sequestered amid national parkland an hour's drive from Phuket Airport. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade...
...major label would decide that this was a happening song, but that they wanted Pat Boone to do it instead!” As a practitioner and a professor of music, Monson embodies a certain working philosophy: study music in all its implications and glory, in as ethical a manner as possible from her given social position. Or, as Monson puts it, her goal is “to teach how music links to larger social issues—and why all these crazy people have been so passionate about jazz...