Word: polarity
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...band raves about its new creative process, and particularly about Yorke's willingness to go along with it. "Just from my point of view," says Selway, "Thom's attitude this time has been the polar opposite to Kid A." Yorke's bandmates are grateful that he's no longer such a pain; they're also thrilled to see him freed from worrying about the global implications of singing rock songs. "For a long time, the whole thing of having to sell my personality affected me," Yorke says. "It took someone like Michael to talk me through the really sticky bits...
...when I first came here all I really knew how to do was be pale and ice fish,” Hendry said. “But when I first met Curran he taught me how to unleash my inner bronzed Adonis, and I taught him how to hunt polar bears with a hockey stick. So even though I lost, I believe that everyone here is a winner...
...little bit of a roller coaster,” said junior tri-captain Kara Brotemarkle. “Obviously we were a bit disappointed after Saturday’s performance, elated after Sunday’s—polar ends there...
...love of grinding may be more sexual than intellectual. “Grinding is the best thing about America. You don’t get it in other countries,” Turnbull says, reflecting on the irony of what he sees as America’s strangely bi-polar sensibilities. “You can’t see half-naked people on bus stops, [but] you can grind your genitals against half-naked people in clubs.” Kristel C. Leow ’04 admitted to being shocked by grinding after first arriving from Malaysia...
...North Korea, too, the “peace” movement cannot dismiss the existence of a brutal internal war against accused political dissidents. Sadly, many have attacked the Bush administration for being overly simplistic and polar in lumping North Korea with Iraq as part of the “Axis of Evil.” But North Korea’s leadership, like Iraq’s, is despicable, and to seek peace on the Korean peninsula is to seek Kim Jong Il’s eventual removal...