Word: objectional
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...DIED. SHIING-SHEN CHERN, 93, mathematician whose "new geometry" theories on how the curvature of a surface can help determine an object's shape influenced fields from theoretical physics to computer graphics; in Tianjin, China. As a teacher, Chern was also influential?so much so that Robert Uomini, a former student of his at the University of California, Berkeley, set up a chair for him at the school with funds from the $22 million Uomini won in the California state lottery...
Fellatio is not the first thing that comes to mind when Gadfly’s thoughts turn to saving the Earth. But who could object when the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) offered “FREE ‘BLOW JOBS’!!!” in an e-mail last weekend touting their recent renewable energy referendum? Was Smokey the Bear getting down on his knees? (Only you can prevent premature ejaculation!) Not quite. The EAC’s party on Saturday night in the Quincy JCR featured a low-tech “blow job chair?...
Three members of the defense team rose simultaneously to object when prosecutor Bloom asked a witness, former HIID employee Kathaleen Mercier, if she “knew that Shleifer was a close friend of the President of the University [Lawrence H. Summers].” Judge Woodlock sustained the objection...
...doubt anyone writing about art today would feel comfortable saying that a work of art is good just because it looks cool, there seem to be plenty of writers who don’t know what to say and so slip into poetic statements of how cool that object looks: hence the “exquisite…visuality” of the chandelier piece touted in the show’s catalogue...
...street urchin in The Professional and the 13-year-old who flirts with Timothy Hutton in Beautiful Girls. "I had a bad early experience when The Professional came out. I'm really proud of the film, but it was strange for me to be looked at as a sexual object when I was 12," she says. So she did such movies as Mars Attacks, Star Wars, Cold Mountain and, in an odd move for someone avoiding being Lolita-ized, a Woody Allen film (Everyone Says I Love You). But she felt she was ready to entrust Nichols with presenting...