Word: pluckings
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...shrewdest of them, the nurse, the one character who is not a university graduate, recognizes the architect's walled-in housing proposal as a variation of a college, turning its back on the rest of the world. Hurt's performance in the role, tinged equally with self-pity and pluck, is the production's strongest. Close impeccably portrays a woman whose compassion leads her into ruinous contradictions. Waterston disappoints a bit, wobbling in his accent and never quite finding the passion, only the hysteria, of his man. Jones' smirky hauteur is chilling as his destructive tactics succeed. Both the architect...
...Entrepreneurs Allen's Blog www.allensblog.typepad.com Allen Morgan, managing director at Mayfield-a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, California-backer of Beatnik, PlanetOut, Tribe and Pluck -guides entrepreneurs on how to pitch ideas and get financing. The recent "10 Commandments" series on how to handle those critical meetings with VCs is a must-read...
...several different blogs, consider using a newsreader such as Bloglines or Kinja. These services let you view content from multiple websites, putting it all in one place so you don?t have to surf around. (There are also newsreader applications that you can download to your desktop. Check out Pluck...
Within a month, the banjo-playing duo were a fixture on the steps of Weld Hall and Widener Library, their pluck entertaining Asian tourists and anyone else who would listen...
...mummified bodies of Pygmies to visitors. But, wrote Polo, "'tis all a lie and cheat. Those ... little men ... are manufactured on the island. There is a kind of monkey on the island which is very small and has a face just like a man's. They take these and pluck out all the hairs except on the beard and chest and then they dry them and stuff them and daub them with saffron until they look like...