Word: pleasingness
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More importantly, it is inconsistent to oppose hitting in women’s hockey while supporting hitting in men’s hockey. The assumption behind this argument is that men should risk more injuries to play an aesthetically less-pleasing game. Men and women should play by the same...
With a budget deficit estimated to set a new record—to the tune of $300 billion—Bush remains stubbornly fixated on pleasing the wealthy. The President’s overly simplistic economic arguments called for a 10-year, $674 billion tax-cut plan that he believes...
Anyone who has traveled much through the Arctic has seen them: astonishingly perfect circles, straight-sided polygons, even stripes that crisscross the hillsides, all made out of stones, as though some infant giant had been pushing pebbles into pleasing arrangements. And while nobody has invoked aliens--the popular explanation for...
Lately, Britain's globe-trotting, crowd-pleasing telechefs have been losing air time (and book sales) to a new breed of celebrity: the telehistorian, serving up entertaining, easy-to-digest lessons about the past. In rapid succession, Simon Schama's blockbuster A History of Britain has been followed by Adam...
Hollywood is realizing that audiences didn't tire of musicals. They tired of bad musicals. When good ones came along--Cabaret in 1972 and Grease in 1978--audiences proved more than willing. While Chicago doesn't have the stylistic daring of Moulin Rouge, it is a crowd-pleasing reimagining of...