Word: notionalism
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...themselves; Ferrell's Golden Globe nomination for 2006's Stranger Than Fiction is among the better-kept secrets in Hollywood.) Both are also among the few people who can carry a blockbuster comedy without a net. "When you're doing an out-and-out comedy," says Ferrell, "the notion of preparing for a character--I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here--but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything." he says, laughing. "Obviously I'm going through the script and saying, Oh, this might be a funny thing to try here. But I don't prepare...
...brainy postmodernist whose 50 books had titles like Forget Foucault and Simulacra and Simulation, French philosopher Jean Baudrillard attracted a lot of attention. A fierce critic of consumerism, he touted the notion of "hyperreality"--the unreal experiencing of events not through one's senses but through the media. His theories drew a cultlike fan base, which included the creators of The Matrix films, but he was best known for sparking furors with his provocative, if not entirely serious, commentary--most famously his 1991 remark that the much covered first Gulf War "did not take place...
...Beah said that the recruiters do not exactly pose the question, “Would you like to join us? Walk around the block and think about it.” A high school senior from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High, Dan M. Glanz, said “The whole notion was pretty shocking, to know that he saw a war when he was younger than I am now.” Beah also discussed the arrival and purpose of his bestselling new book, ‘A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier...
...compensation, the maturity to acknowledge the difference between love and lust, and the confidence to demand the former in situations where they are pressured to compromise themselves for the latter. The mysterious allure of virginity is not rooted in an image of innocence and purity, but rather in the notion of strength: the ability to withstand temptation even in the face of societal norms and expectations...
...pride…It is easy to see, then, that the length of the penis, the force of the urinary jet, the strength of erection and ejaculation become for him the measure of his own worth.” Or maybe certain Houses’ predilection stems from the notion that any object whose length exceeds its breadth automatically conjures up the image of a penis. Nonetheless, we encourage House committees and house-members to expand their horizons beyond the purely phallic. After all, there comes a point where we have to ask ourselves whether these T-shirts are really...