Word: par
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...revolutionary, if that?s what Hefner was, has to take attacks from all sides. He got it from the puritan right and the feminist left, though both made the same point: that Playboy objectifies women. The Playmate, one clergyman fumed in the early years, is ?the symbol par excellence of Playboy sex, for she may be folded when not in use ... the Playboy girl is detachable and disposable.? Benjamin DeMott denounced Hefner in the Jewish-intellectual magazine Commentary: ?In place of the citizen with a vote to cast or a job to do or a book to study...
...would have to ensure that our announcement system is well up to par,” she said early last week...
Throughout my visit, cellphones rang, laughter echoed and eight-year-olds literally bounced off the walls. A baby crying is par for the course, but Friday’s baby was particularly recalcitrant, and traveled in an incredibly squeaky stroller. Above all else, people were talking. Shamelessly and openly they talked, they discussed, they delivered discourses. It was no cacophony, but it seemed strange. On a Saturday, with attendance tripled or quadrupled, the noise wouldn’t have been so bizarre—but on a Friday? Maybe, I thought, it was just an unfortunate fluke...
...will charge only $39 for its all-day adult lift ticket (its rival asks $59). A six-person express lift will take skiers from the base to above Timberline. Moonlight's 3,050 ft. of vertical descent, including 1,200 ft. of inbound hike-up terrain, is on a par with the long drops of Park City, Mammoth, Killington and Deer Valley. --By Pat Dawson
...Yost fans are great, too. My personal favorite has always been after an opposing goal, when students direct an “Ug-ly par-ents!” barb toward the applauding parent/girlfriend section. And then there’s the band director, who starts disco dancing in the middle of the game. Hilarious...