Word: meta
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...system in ways that tend to keep you out of the coffin, not put you in it. That's one of the findings that emerged from a study of 30 years of stress research published last week in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association. In a meta-analysis of more than 300 studies involving some 19,000 subjects, psychologists Gregory Miller at the University of British Columbia and Suzanne Segerstrom at the University of Kentucky combed through thousands of pages of research in search of common threads...
...artist rolls his eyes,’” he meta-narrated. “There’s a reason John [Kerry] has never taken his guitar out in front of me. He skis with me, because I’m bad,” Stills said...
...going to have to—I don’t want to say who it is but you are going to have to go through that and find a way to clean up my language too.” When questioned about the deleted passages, Rumsfeld got meta-ridiculous, trying to cover up the cover-up by dismissing the deleted passages as “some banter.” Apparently, when you’re the defense secretary, your conversations are so important that admitting that you shared secret war plans that you claim never to have finalized...
...abroad again—to Baghdad, where the United States was waging its most controversial war since the 1970s. There, in the weeks before a sign reading “Mission Accomplished” was strung up behind President Bush on the USS Lincoln, Carlson conducted a series of meta-interviews on his own, speaking with journalists from a wide range of news organizations about the thrills and trials, dangers and dilemmas of reporting live...
...faces a less-than-imposing panel of five student reporters on Tuesday. Cage was considered a few years back for the part of a big-screen Superman; calling Kaufman Clark Kent would be something of a stretch. For anyone who’s seen Kaufman’s 2002 meta masterpiece Adaptation, though, the resemblance can’t be denied. Here, in a sunlit conference room on the second floor of the Boston Ritz-Carlton, is living evidence that Cage was nearly perfect in his on-screen portrayal of that self-referential script’s author. Kaufman...