Word: objectness
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...been portrayed as an obstacle to peace. But things look very different to the Palestinians: Abbas has a portrait of Arafat hanging in his office, and seeks to draw authority by claiming to represent his legacy; it's highly unlikely that any Palestinian politician would claim Sadat as an object of emulation...
That doesn't mean that the dogs understand the words the way we think they do. When they hear "Frisbee," they may think only, Get the Frisbee. Unlike us, they may not be able to recognize that Frisbee is a word for a distinct object that can be combined with other words to create sentences like "Run away from the Frisbee...
...movie and, as it happens, her fourth to hit theaters in the past 10 months. This time she plays Eloise, a Seattle florist who drives a quirky van and wears cunning hats. As per usual, Aniston has bountiful hair and a fretful mouth and is available for love. The object of her tepid affection is Burke (Aaron Eckhart), the best-selling author of a self-help book called A-Okay!. Burke has specialized in trying to cajole others out of grief since his wife died in a car accident three years before, but he is living a lie, because...
...compare the two women is natural enough, especially given that Barack Obama won the same sort of transformative, generational election in 2008 that John F. Kennedy ’40 won in 1960. Nor is Michelle Obama the first presidential spouse to be a media darling or even an object of national interest. Hillary Clinton, before her infamous health-care debacle in 1993, was similarly fawned over, and Nancy Reagan, with those ever-useful horoscopes, never failed to amuse...
...White House released the President's remarks Labor Day afternoon, and it's hard to imagine even the most dogged partisans finding much to object to in sentiments such as, "No matter what you want to do with your life - I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it." Much of the speech hews to Obama's campaign-trail exhortations to children to put down video games, turn off the television and pick up the schoolbooks. Obama will specifically ask kids to fulfill their responsibilities and give shout-outs to the founders of Facebook and Twitter as young...