Word: poses
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Adolescence had not yet been invented when R.L.S. reached his late teens, but he seems to have been a prototype. In college he took the pose of dilettantism to extremes, reacting to parental strictness (his father fined him a penny for each slang word he uttered) by rarely showing up for classes. When law exams loomed, he persuaded a friendly doctor to say he was too ill to face them and should be sent off on vacation. In both Edinburgh and London he prowled the seedier neighborhoods late at night, sometimes dressed as a gentleman, sometimes as a ruffian, noting...
Upon receiving his Pudding Pot, Hanks struck a Vannaesque pose...
...case of seat belts, exhaustive testing and research on its side. The magazine's more recent warnings, they add, have not been similarly grounded in facts or else have made minimal risks seem major ones. In May 1989, CR did a story on the health risks posed by the continued use of the chemical Alar to ripen apples. The piece made news in other magazines and on TV and helped spread alarm about the chemical; eventually, stores took Alar-treated apples off the shelf, costing U.S. apple growers an estimated $100 million in discarded produce. While some, including CR, still...
...students take these courses in the first place? When I pose this question to friends enrolled in creative writing courses, the answer is frequently a variant on the this theme: "I always wanted to write some short stories (or a collection of poems) and the class is a wonderful opportunity to do so." Was someone standing over these students for the past twenty years, forbidding them to put pen to paper? One can write--creatively even--without going to writing class...
...free speech, free market feminist," Boggs said. "I have absolutely no problem with it. If you think it's offensive, don't buy it, don't pose...