Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...image makeover. For years, Democratic leaders have urged him to start a radio talk show and distance himself from his TV persona. Springer did just that a month ago. For three hours a day, five days a week, on Cincinnati's WCKY-AM, Springer is talking about the object of his renewed passion: politics. "Republicans get elected on cultural issues," Springer says. "But if they ran on tax cuts for the wealthy or the end of Social Security, which is what they actually stand for, they'd lose...
...object of this attention smiles at all the inferences--not least because, at 59, Freston is old enough to be the granddad of his target ticket buyer. He was in Park City, Utah, he says, at the invitation of Robert Redford, whose Sundance Channel is owned by Viacom. When at a film festival, see a film. Hence his presence at Hustle & Flow. "I couldn't believe the articles--'God, he stood up when the movie was finished!' There were 1,000 people standing up in the room. I was one of the last guys to stand," Freston says...
...trunk. A pure aesthetic flourish on the part of Jean Bugatti, son of company founder Ettore, the riveted seam gives the car a hand-sewn look. It also removes it so completely from the realm of the familiar as to make the Atlantic Coupe something close to a Surrealist object...
...world’s only superhero—in fact, the world’s only political superhero. Its protagonist’s remarkable abilities are an interesting wrinkle rather than the center of the plot. A civil engineer by trade, he stumbles onto a Generic Glowing Object (itself an instance of deus ex machina present in nearly every superhero’s origin story) that explodes and inscribes curving scars on his face reminiscent of the metallic tracery on a circuit board...
...more important issues at hand at this university. The “crisis of leadership” one tenured faculty member decried is pure political capitalization. The continuous reiteration of the two-word phrase “innate differences” does not seem to be the only object of the faculty’s ire. It has, however, served to create an opportunity to drop a stack of complaints on the desk of the president. The solely negative remarks insinuating accusations of racism, sexism, and every other “ism” on the planet would potentially leave...