Word: portion
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...meat is not generally considered to be glamorous or sexy. Think sexy meat and it's a big juicy fillet or beef winking up at you from the plate, next to it a decent bottle of Bordeaux. Think healthy meat, if you must, and it's a small portion of free-range chicken breast...Whatever your criterion, there's always something outgunning pork for the top spot: aristocratic meat (venison, swan), cruel meat (dog, suckling anything), underrated (rabbit), overrated (veal), fashionable (ostrich), unfashionable (horse...
Because each school is funded through different mixes of the three income streams, Faust said that University leaders will tailor solutions to the individual schools. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, for example, receives a substantial portion of its budget from the University endowment income, whereas the Harvard School of Public Health depends heavily on sponsored research grants...
...serves to heighten the setting. But while the set is well-executed, it remains unclear how it fits into the overall artistic vision of the play.The issue seems to lie with the direction in which the show was taken. Experimental is certainly the correct term, but the experimental portion of the production simply gets out of hand. “Lunatics don’t have reasons,” Mrs. Venable screams, and the intentions of Vartikar-McCullough aren’t clear, either...
...heart, the story is fundamentally one of displacement. Caden is haunted by the ghosts of his wife and child—the people for whom he has become something of a ghost as well—and his search for them comprises the funniest, most adventurous and heart-rending portion of the film. The dialogue between performance and real life is so dense and cyclical that Tom Noonan (who plays Caden in the play and follows him throughout most of the film) goes so far as to lead Caden to his wife’s new apartment in New York...
...everyone in Congress, or in Washington, particularly likes Emanuel, 49, the former senior Clinton White House official who just won his fourth term in Congress representing a portion of Chicago and who serves as the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House. Even some members of his own party (including members of the black and Latino caucuses) bear no affection for him, especially those who feel he has run roughshod over their prerogatives in pursuit of some greater goal - like wresting control of the House from the Republicans in 2006, a project Emanuel spearheaded. Others simply fear him. But few people...