Word: mannerize
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...outward appearances, Newt Gingrich was spending his Christmastime in an unusually relaxed manner. He gazed upon his beloved dinosaur bones at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, then traveled with his wife Marianne to visit relatives in Pennsylvania. But the leisurely itinerary masked grave deliberations between the Speaker and the House ethics committee. And in a written statement released on Saturday, Gingrich made a dramatic admission: "In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the [ethics] committee, but I did not intend to mislead...I did not seek personal gain...
...painting's authenticity began to circulate among an international coterie of art enthusiasts. Stylistically, says Jean-Marie Tasset, art critic for the French daily Figaro, the serene canvas is "atypical" of the frenetic paintings made during the artist's last days. The central walkway is done in a pointillist manner virtually unprecedented in Van Gogh's late works...
...does Dorothy. Hiding a romantic soul under a patient and realistic manner, she's just the woman to keep a grounded high-flyer functioning out of a home office. And to show him that love is something more than a contact sport...
...high school student, I witness examples of female subordination daily. Stereotypes are so ingrained in our culture that they are seldom questioned by my peers. If Mattel's president Jill Barad is truly concerned about American girls' future, she should approach female computer illiteracy in a manner that does not enforce the stereotypes we are supposedly trying to banish. Mattel's Barbie Fashion Designer program will only distract girls from the healthy activities that steer them away from oppression. CLAIRE CREVEY, age 17 Indianapolis, Indiana...
...That means that ancient regions, which represent genes or portions of genes, have descended in a relatively unchanged manner from a common ancestor," Gilbert told reporters earlier this week. "This supports the theory that introns have facilitated the shuffling of exons from the time of the origin of genes...