Word: neatness
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Good Day. That’s what Guttentag means in German and that’s what is embroidered in neat block letters on Lisa Guttentag’s blue L.L. Bean backpack. It’s unclear if it’s an affirmation or a command. But either way, Guttentag is having a good day and wants everyone else to have one, too. She’s not really supposed to be here right now. At least, on June 12, 2000, when her van was hit by a tractor trailer, no one thought she would be here...
...more hospitals. Instead, Modi is appealing to a deeper core, calling on his supporters to ignite a fanatical faith in themselves and in the man they believe can lead them to national nirvana. As he surveys the hundreds jostling for one glimpse of him, one brush of his neat beard, even Modi is impressed. "Look at these people," he remarks to a reporter. "They all want to touch me, hold me. It's more than anything I could have dreamed...
...with a world in which the interior life becomes ever more threadbare as the means to sustain it--especially the essential consolations of serious reading--wither away. In tones that are sober but never lugubrious, Franzen weighs the pressures upon the self in a culture that manages the neat trick of discouraging real solitude and genuine community, substituting for both the paradox of media-overloaded isolation. "The first lesson reading teaches," he writes, "is how to be alone...
...Some did. Of the 13 leopards found dead around Bori Budruk since January 2000, postmortems showed all died of starvation. But this summer things took a savage and unforeseen turn. The animals adapted. In the tamed landscape in which they found themselves?neat rows of tomatoes and cornflowers and chrysanthemums for export to Europe?leopards came across man-made forests of towering sugarcane. Far from being just a make-do home, says forestry chief Ashokkumar N. Khadse, the cane fields proved to be an ideal leopard habitat. The animals flourished in the impenetrable thickets, producing two litters a year...
Seinfeld, who's a lot more socialized than most. His stance toward the universe is bemused irreverence; he's the ironic Bar Mitzvah boy, neat, well mannered but ready to puncture the pretense of everything going on around him. In some ways he just hides the hostility better than most. At one point in Comedian, he turns to a club audience and says, "You're in charge of deciding what's funny or not, and you know nothing. What gives you the authority? You bought two drinks." They laugh...