Word: pinning
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...Brown resents an attempt to pin her down. "I know you don't like being called a lesbian author," I said tentatively. (On the back flap of Venus Envy, she remarks that if anyone tries to define her as such again, she will "knock their teeth in.") "If you're going to label me, then you have to label everyone," Brown replied reasonably. "Then Norman Mailer has to be a Jewish heterosexual writer. See what I mean...
Only the politics will keep some from enjoying the novel, but there are so many turns that it is impossible to pin down Roth the author's intentions and "blame" him for holding any particular view. Would some chastise the sympathetic portayal of a Palestinian Nationalist? Or rather, would some be upset by a sympathic portrait of a Mossad (the Israeli Secret Police) officer named (or not named) Smilesburger, who regrets the plight of Palestinians but defends Israel nonetheless...
...offices where they care about such things, the day is traditionally celebrated by taking the secretary out to a long lunch, or buying her a potted plant. Of course, most secretaries would rather be said a decent living wage all year round than collect one more "Secretaries Are Great" pin, but Secretaries' Day is not about politics. It is about promoting Hallmark...
...hole, a par-four of around 400 yards, with a 45-degree incline facing golfers on their second shots and a green with the flatness of the Alps once up the hill. Three of Crimson golfers missed putts inside of four feet after poor lags to the far-left pin position. But Radtke had perhaps the cruelest break of all. His drive was too perfect, stopping halfway down a slope, impeded by a burrowing animal hole, and leaving him with no chance to hit a shot with enough elevation to clear the rise in front...
...civil rights in a 1991 beating. Calmly, politely, King testified that he led police on a chase because he feared a return to prison. He described being shocked by a police stun gun; he said police taunted him. Defense lawyers tried to rock King. One tried to pin him down on whether officers called him "killer" or "nigger." King was blurry on details, but Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, says, "When the jury went back into the jury room, they had a human being on their minds, not some blip...