Word: perfective
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...they're so close that some even reach out their small, dexterous hands to touch the sleeve of your T shirt. This is not some remote African campsite but the town of Fuengirola, on Spain's densely developed, tourist-packed Costa del Sol. Once you've achieved the perfect sunburn and eaten your body weight in ice cream, head for Fuengirola Zoo, where amazing encounters like these await you. The zoo is tucked among holiday high-rise apartments in the center of town; keep an eye out for the entrance - wide wooden stairs fronted by five flags. Proximity...
...more French can I be? And there are many more people like me, not just Muslims but blacks, Asians and South Asians. It's time for the French to reject those outdated labels. And it's time for minorities to reject the cult of victimization too. Things aren't perfect. There are a lot of problems. Those problems exploded last week, unleashing the long-held resentment of people who feel unwanted, scorned and swept into the margins like so much trash. To change that, the gap between the banlieue and the rest of France must be bridged. We need...
...geisha, one of the "wives of nightfall" who for centuries have entertained Japanese gentlemen with delicacy, wit and performance skills. At 15, Chiyo has these graces only in embryo; but a famous geisha, Mameha, sees how they might flower. She begins the girl's education sternly. "That is a perfect bow. For a pig farmer." "Rise. Not like a horse." And slowly the eager student with the "watery" gray eyes grows into a captivating woman known as Nitta Sayuri. Hatsumomo, another geisha, sees Sayuri's promise as a threat. She spits a warning at the girl: "I will destroy...
...room and say good night. He said no, he wouldn't. While Rabin labors in the shadow of great nation builders -- David Ben- Gurion and Golda Meir -- Arafat stands alone as a folk hero to his people. The teetotaling vegetarian is conniving, disarming, engaging, and quick with such perfect sound bites as the fact that his favorite cartoon is Tom and Jerry, since the mouse so often wins. He is a master of symbolism: never much of a soldier, he chose a fighting man's khakis and holster for his daily costume. His checkered kaffiyeh provides instant recognizability...
...video’s ramshackle aesthetic is the perfect compliment to the Silver Jews’ sound: “How Can I Love You” is, at heart, just old-fashioned honky-tonk music, and too much visual fuss would have muddied its simple pleasures...