Word: obey
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Then you need a good parliamentarian the other members agree to respect and obey. As the eldest, I automatically took the role of "list mom." That may have been a mistake, considering all the snickering that went on behind my e-back: "20 bucks says that by the time Eugenie reads this, she has already sent an e-mail asking us to stop spamming...
...School of Design student named Shepard Fairey, the campaign was originally a joke. Fairey plastered Providence with a sticker bearing a stylized Andre as a prank, and it grew from there--gaining curiosity, notoriety, converts, and a self-consciously totalitarian aesthetic (including lone block-typed words like "buy" and "obey...
Against this bleak picture, Andre's face looms with its stylized series of commands: Buy. Obey. The verbs' object is, of course, left blank. In the end, it seems, what we have bought into is not the product or the image at all but the movement--a movement which, ironically, consists exactly of those who have bought into the image. Postmodern cynics might even say we have bought into buying itself. Caveat emptor...
...believe in this area as others that students should take responsibility, and be held responsible, for their own actions," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "Moreover, this is more than a moral stance about our expectations that students obey the law; violating this one has very real potential consequences for students...
...Venter thumbs his nose at the system and the scientific establishment. He scorns the feigned modesty that most scientists wear as comfortably as their lab coats and tweed jackets. He loves to buck authority (in the Navy in Vietnam he was tossed in the brig twice for refusing to obey orders), and he almost always speaks his mind. "He has no filter. He shoots from the hip," says Norton Zinder of Rockefeller University, leader of the effort to map the genome who overcame his initial hostility and joined Celera's advisory board...