Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marquez that it's amazing to me. I could've written a follow-up to Mambo Kings could've done a follow-up to my first novel. I'm just trying to change things a little bit. Not to be [retentions, or anything, I just want to break the mold...
...such as the media and publishing which have managed to present only one side of issues like the Los Angeles riots or the debate of Afocentrism. More importantly, Reed questions the manner in which Black conservatives contribute to such practices by constricting their own views to fit the popular mold. "One of the jobs of the media," writes Reed, "was to protect white America, its customers, from their devils...Though 12 percent of those arrested for looting--including Santa Monica yuppies--during the Great Los Angeles Uprising of 1992 were white, the pictures of whites were associated with cleaning...
Like pink cotton candy, mush disappears as soon as it's touched. Flowers wither, candies mold. Far better to reach for the red. Forego the sugar coating. Try for substance...
Chances are that this would not be an accurate sketch of the Tupperware parties of years past. Of course, Maimonis doesn't fit the precise mold of the "Tupperware lady" either...
...Right Subject. Genius is one- tenth inspiration and nine-tenths obsession. Chaplin makes you think it is ten-tenths passivity, a matter of landing in the right place at the right time. So Richard Attenborough's film breaks new ground. Instead of casting Charlie Chaplin in an unnaturally heroic mold, it makes him a distracted twit who wanders through his life as if it belonged to someone else...